Saurus-A-Rama! Roar! A Dinosaur's Tour by Michael Paul

MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO -DINOSAURS WALKED THE EARTH.

They were all dinosaurs, and they were all different.

Compsagnathus was little, the size of a chicken. Tyrannosaurus Rex was very big, a little taller and longer than a big school bus, but Supersaurus was much bigger than a T. Rex and Gigantosaurus was larger than both of them.

Like the T. Rex, some other dinosaurs walked and ran on two legs. Carnotaurus did, but Triceratops stomped around on four thick legs.

Velociraptor ran very fast, but Iguanodon was slow and plodding. Peloroplites lived all by himself or herself, but Corythosaurus liked mostly to hang out with his family. Ankylosaurus used his big wrecking-ball of a tail like a club, but Pachycephalosaurus just lowered his big armored head and charged at his enemies.

The dinosaurs are all gone now, but...

YOU CAN SEE THEIR BONES AT THE MUSEUM.

From his bold and bright cover to the end papers with profiled headshots of many more dinosaurs, Michael Paul's new Roar: A Dinosaur Tour (Crown/Random House, 2018) offer youngsters who know a little about dinosaurs and want to know more an intriguing compare-and-contrast look at a variety of dinosaurs, a good jumping-off place for more complex dinosaur studies. Paul's artwork has simple lines, but offers a complex and vividly saturated palette of bright and deep colors, carefully showing both scaled and feathered skins that make this prehistoric critter primer very much of an eye-catching introduction to every kid's favorite.