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ABOUT "DINO" DON LESSEM, THE EXHIBIT CREATOR "Dino" Don Lessem is the leading presenter of dinosaur science. Author of more than twenty books, advisor to Jurassic Park and Disney Dinosaur films, host and author of NOVA and Discovery Channel films, Mr. Lessem has spent the last 15 years traveling the world in search of dinosaurs, from Mongolia to Arctic Alaska. Mr. Lessem has supervised the excavation and reconstruction of the world's largest meat-eating dinosaur, Giganotosaurus, and the largest of all dinosaurs, Argentinosaurus. A former animal behaviorist who began his dinosaur studies as a Knight Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Lessem started his dinosaur research as a participant in the 1988 China-Canada Expedition to Inner Mongolia. Mr. Lessem is the creator and chief funder of the two largest charities in the world for dinosaur research, The Dinosaur Society and more recently, the Jurassic Foundation. "Dino" Don is best known as dinosaur columnist for Highlights Magazine, the most popular children's magazine in the world. Mr. Lessem conceived and created this dinosaur exhibition through his company, Dinodon, Inc. Mr. Lessem's other exhibitions include Discovering Dinosaurs, and the most popular traveling exhibit in natural history, The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, which has toured 30 North American cities in three editions, with attendance surpassing 3,000,000, and providing nearly $2,000,000 for dinosaur research. |
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Price: $5.99 (OUT OF STOCK) A dinosaur consultant for the movie, Jurassic Park, presents a lavishly illustrated and easy-to-use introduction to the astonishing world of dinosaurs, examining how they hunted, how they defended themselves, what they ate, and why they became extinct. |
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Baby Dinosaurs Price: $5.99 "Dinosaurs continue to be remarkably popular with younger kids, so this book is bound to be a hit. Interesting information will also keep the interest of adults reading aloud to small children. Did you know that T. Rex babies might have had fluffy down all over their bodies to keep warm? The skillfully drawn, colorful illustrations show how various dinosaurs grew inside eggs, and how they might have looked and acted when they were young. The well-written text will appeal to young dinosaur experts, and fact boxes from "Dino Don" will provide them with another layer of knowledge....Another kid-friendly feature of this book is a collection of baby dinosaur stickers, which can be played with on a fold-out background. A fun and educational book." Childrens Literature |
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Biggest Dinosaurs Price: $5.99 This great new series brings you the most up-to-the-minute theories and discoveries about dinosaurs. Thrilling, colorful art brings the text vividly to life. Each book answers questions kids have about dinosaurs. The series also includes a fun interactive element: two pages of dinosaur stickers and a gatefold landscape to put them on! |
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The Dinosaur Atlas Price: $18.95 "This chronological overview is built around a series of spreads that take readers from the Late Triassic period through the Late Cretaceous, when the last known dinosaurs died out. Each spread features a few paragraphs describing dinosaur life in a specific area during the time period. The text is lively and enlightening, focusing on especially interesting examples rather than vague generalizations. Lessem shares insights about fossil discoveries, along with species details and geography, in a smooth, enthusiastic voice. "Dino Don Says" sections offer intriguing tidbits and fact boxes highlight particular species..." School Library Journal |
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Dinosaur Worlds: New Dinosaurs-New Discoveries Price: $19.95 (OUT OF STOCK) "Many books on dinosaurs get caught up in cataloging the creatures and their features and forget to fit them into an ecological niche. Lessem's endeavor is brilliant because it describes dinosaurs by integrating them into their environment, which includes climate, geology, fauna and flora, and the continent on which they lived, thus connecting the animal to its time and place. Few other books on the topic fill in the full picture so well. Lessem even includes a "Then" and "Now" feature to show readers that the deserts and cliffs where dinosaur bones are found today were often jungles and oceans in prehistoric times....The book is packed with good information for reports, and includes an excellent list for further reading. But it's also great for browsing. This is in part due to its large size, which accommodates excellent full-color artwork that truly captures the towering necks of sauropods or the action-packed drama of a carnivore tracking down a meal. This portrait of the Earth's past life is a masterpiece" School Library Journal |
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Giants of the Sky Price: $5.99 (OUT OF STOCK) Could any dinosaurs fly? Not exactly-famous fliers like pterodactyls are actually from a different species, called pterosaurs-but the skies of prehistoric Earth were full of life. Find out all about the earliest flying monsters, from pterosaurs the size of sparrows to Quetzalcoatlus, a creature as large as a fighter plane. Comes with stickers at beginning and end of book. |
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Monsters of the Sea Price: $6.99 (OUT OF STOCK) Series: When Dinosaurs Lived Series While dinosaurs ruled the land, what kinds of animals were living in the depths of the sea? Turns out there were some creatures far stranger than your average dinosaur, swimming and skulking around on the ocean floor. The Loch Ness Monster can't even compare! |
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Triceratops Price: $8.99 "With textured plastic covers shaped like the face of the dinosaur featured, plus digitally enhanced photographs that make the dinos look real, Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex by Don Lessem, illus. by Hall Train, will intrigue young fans of the prehistoric monsters. Inside, Lessem traces both creatures from birth to the time they're full-grown." Publishers Weekly |
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Program Description: "Dino" Don talks about his life as a dinosaur expert- traveling the world from Argentina to Mongolia to dig up the largest dinosaurs ever found, and putting them back together for museums. And he tells inside stories of the truth and fiction of Jurassic Park from his adventures as advisor to the movie and theme park. "Dino" Don knows kids as well as dinosaurs, from writing over 25 award winning books and a monthly column for Highlights Magazine answering kids' questions. In a highly interactive presentation for all ages, he opens up the world of dinosaurs to all ages with help from rare fossils and lively audience participation. |
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