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I often get asked to recommend books for budding young paleontologists. The first group are books that are appropriate for young children (elementary school age or younger) who are interested in dinosaurs.
Robert T. Bakker, Maximum Triceratops,
Random House,
2004
Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Pack,
Random House, 2003
Michael Benton, The Dinosaur Encyclopedia, Aladdin Paperbacks (Simon and Schuster), 1984
Michael Benton, Dinosaur and Other Prehistoric
Animal Fact Finder, Kingfisher, 1992
Karen Chin, Dino
Dung, Random House, 2005
Daniel Cohen, Dinosaur Discovery: Facts, Fossils, and Fun!, Puffin Books (Penguin Group), 1998
Eyewitness Books, Dinosaur, Alfred A. Knopf (Dorling Kindersley Publishing) 1989
Sylvia Funston, The Dinosaur Question and Answer
Book, Little, Brown and Company, 1992
Geoff Habiger, Dinosaur
Learning Activity Book, Artemesia Publishing, 2005
Thomas R. Holtz, T. rex:
Hunter or Scavenger? Random House, 2003
Patricia Lauber, The News About Dinosaurs, Aladdin Paperbacks (Simon and Schuster), 1989
William Lindsay, On the Trail of Incredible
Dinosaurs, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1998
James Martin, Living
Fossils: Animals that Have Withstood the Test of Time, Knopf
Books for Young Readers 1997
Angela Milner, Children's Chronicle of Dinosaurs, Studio Editions, 1993
Angela Milner, Dinosaurs, Time Life Books, 1995
Mary Packard, Dinosaurs, Simon and Schuster, 1981
Barbara Taylor, The Really Deadly and Dangerous Dinosaur and Other Monsters of the Prehistoric World, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1997
Dennis R. Shealy, Dinosaurs Alive! The Dinosaur-Bird Connection, Random House, 2001
Christopher Sloan, SuperCroc and
the
Origin of Crocodiles, National Geographic, 2002
Paul D. Taylor, Fossil,
Dorling Kindersley, 1993
Philip Whitfield, Children's Guide to Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, Simon and Schuster, 1992
Angela Wilkes, The Big Book of Dinosaurs: A First Book for Young Children, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1993
The following is a list of books from my own collection that would be useful to future paleontologists in high school or older, younger paleontologists will need some help with the big words from Mom and Dad.
Jordi Agusti and Mauricio Anton, Mammoths,
Sabertooths, and Homininds: 65 Million Years of Mammalian
Evolution in Europe, Columbia University Press, 2002
McNeill R. Alexander, Dynamics of Dinosaurs and other Extinct
Giants, Columbia University Press, 1989
Mauricio Anton and Alan Turner, The Big Cats and their Fossil
Relatives: An Illustrated Guide to their Evolution and Natural
History, Columbia University Press, 2000
Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp, Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric
Animals of Riversleigh, Indiana University Press, 2001
J. David Archibald, Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era,
What the Fossils Say, Columbia University Press, 1996
Steven T. Asma, Stuffed Animals
and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History
Museums, Oxford University Press, 2002
R. McNeill Alexander, Bones: The Unity of Form and Function, Macmillan, Inc, 1994
Ann Bausum and George Borup Andrews, Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, National Geographic, 2000
Michael Benton, Walking with Dinosaurs:
Fascinating Facts, Dorling Kindersley Publishing 2000
Tim R. Birkhead, A
Brand-New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created the First
Genetically Engineered Animal, Basic Books, 2003
Jane R. Camerini, The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings from the Field, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
Deborah Cadbury, Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science, Henry Holt and Company, 2001
Deborah Cadbury, The Dinosaur
Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of
the Prehistoric World, Fourth Estate 2000
Kenneth Carpenter (editor), The Armored Dinosaurs, Indiana
University Press, 2001
Kenneth Carpenter (editor), The Carnivorous Dinosaurs, Indiana
University Press, 2005
Kenneth Carpenter, Karl F. Hirsch, and John R.
Horner (editors)
Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, 1994
Kenneth Carpenter, Eggs,
Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs, Indiana University Press, 2000
Sankar Chattergee, The Rise of Birds: 225 Million Years of Evolution, John Hopkins University Press, 1997
Luis M. Chiappe and Lowell Dingus, Walking on
Eggs: The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in
the Badlands of Patagonia, Scribner, 2001
Jennifer A. Clack, Gaining
Ground: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods, Indiana
University Press, 2002
John Cohagrandes and Larry Felder, In the Presence of Dinosaurs, Time Life Books, 2000
Claudine Cohen and William Rodarmor (translator), The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myths, and History, University of Chicago Press, 2002
Philip J. Currie and Kevin Padian (editors), The
Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, Academic Press, 1997
Philip J. Currie, Eva B. Koppelhus, Martin A.
Shugar, and Joanna L. Wright (editors), Feathered Dragons: Studies on the
Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds, Indiana University Press,
2004
Alan Cutler, The Seashell on the Mountaintop:
A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who
Discovered a New History of the Earth, Dutton, 2003
Lowell Dingus and Timothy Rowe, The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds, W. H. Freeman and Company, 1997
Dougal Dixon, Amazing Dinosaurs, Boyds Mills Press, 2000
Dougal Dixon (editor), The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals: A Visual Who’s Who of Prehistoric Life, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988
Peter Dodson, The Horned Dinosaurs, Princeton University Press, 1996
Niles Eldredge, Fossils: The Evolution and
Extiction of Species, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1991
Richard Ellis, Sea
Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans, University
Press of Kansas, 2003
Douglas H. Erwin and Wing, Scott L., Deep Time: Paleobiology's
Perspective, The University of Chicago Press, 2001
Michael J. Everhart, Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History
of the Western Interior Sea, Indiana University Press, 2005
Eyewitness Visual Dictionary, The Visual Dictionary of Dinosaurs, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc, 1993
Alan Feduccia, The Age of Birds, Harvard University Press, 1980
Alan Feduccia, The Origin and Evolution of
Birds, Yale University Press, 1999
Martin Fichman, An
Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace, University
of Chicago Press, 2004
Steve Fiffer, Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T. rex Ever Found, W. H. Freeman and Company 2000
Richard Fortey, Fossils: The Key to the Past, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002
Richard Fortey, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, Vintage Books, 2000
Charles Gallenkamp and Michael J. Novacek, Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions, Viking Penguin, 2001
Eugene S. Gaffney, Lowell Dingus, Mark A. Norell, Discovering Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Lessons of Prehistory, University of California Press, 1995
Tim Gardom and Angela Milner, The Book of Dinosaurs: The Natural History Museum Guide, Carlton Books Ltd, 1998
Wayne Grady, The Bone Museum: Travels into
the Lost Worlds of Dinosaurs and Brids, Four Walls Eight Windows,
2001
David Gillette and Mark Hallett, Seismosaurus: The Earth Shaker, Columbia
University Press, 1994
Tim Haines, Walking with Dinosaurs, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1999
Tim Haines, Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2001
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. and Michael Brett-Surman, Jurassic Park Institute Dinosaur Field Guide, Random House, 2001
John R. Horner, Dinosaurs under the Big Sky, Mountain Publishing Company, 2001
John R. Horner and Edwin Dobb, Dinosaur Lives, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997
John R. Horner and James Gorman, Digging Dinosaurs: The search that unraveled the mystery of baby dinosaurs, Workman Publishing, 1988
John R. Horner and Don Lessem, The Complete T. rex: How stunning new discoveries are changing our understanding of the world’s most famous dinosaur, Simon and Schuster, 1993
Louis Jacobs, Lone Star Dinosaurs, Texas A&M Press, 1995
Louis Jacobs, Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World, Villard Books, 1993
Mark Jaffe, The Gilded Dinosaur: The
Fossil War Between E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh and the Rise of American
Science, Three Rivers Press, 2000
Lisa Jardine, The
Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London, Harper
Collins, 2004
R. L. Jones and Kathryn Gabriel, Dinosaurs On-Line: A Guide to the Best Dinosaur Sites on the Internet, Cumberland House Publications, 2000
R. L. Jones and Kathryn Gabriel, Dino Safari, Cumberland House Publications, 1999
Randal Keynes, Darwin, His Daughter, and Human
Evolution, Riverhead Books, 2002
Charles R. Knight, Life
through the Ages: A Commemorative Edition, Indiana
University Press, 2001
Michael F. Kohl, John S. McIntosh, and John S.
Ostrom, Discovering Dinosaurs in the Old West: The Field
Journals of Arthur Lakes, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997
Michael F. Kohl, Larry D. Martin, and Paul Brinkman
(editors), A Triceratops Hunt in
Pioneer Wyoming: The Journals of Barnum Brown and J. P. Sams, The
University of Kansas Expedition of 1895, High Plains Press, 2004
Jacques Kornprobst and Christine Laverne, Living Mountains: How and Why
Volcanoes Erupt, Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2006
David Lambert, Guide to Dinosaurs, Dorling Kindersley, 2000
David Lambert, The Ultimate Dinosaur Book,
Dorling Kindersley, 1993
Ian M. Lange, Ice Age Mammals
of North America: A Guide to the Big, the Hairy, and the Bizzare,
Mountain Press Publishing, Inc, 2002
Leo F. Laporte, George
Gaylord Simpson Paleontologist and Evolutionist, Columbia
University Press, 2000
Don Lessem, Dinosaur Worlds, Boyds Mills
Press, 1996
Martin Lockley and Christian Meyer, Dinosaur Tracks and other Fossil
Footprints of Europe, Columbia University Press, 2000
Martin Lockley and Adrian Hunt, Dinosaur Tracks of Western North America, Columbia
University Press, 1999
Martin Lockley and Judy Peterson, A Guide to the Fossil Footprints of the
World, Lockley Peterson Publications, 2003
Martin Lockley, Tracking Dinosaurs: A new look at an ancient world, University of Cambridge Press, 1991
John A. Long, The Rise of Fishes, John
Hopkins University
Press, 1995
Gerhard Maier, African
Dinosaurs Unearthed: The Tendagu Expeditions, Indiana
University Press, 2003
Lynn Margulis, Curious
Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist, Pantheon Books,
2004
Dave Martill and Darren Naish, Walking with
Dinosaurs: The Evidence, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2000
Robert A. Martin, Missing
Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions through Time, Jones
and Bartlett Publishers, 2003
Adrienne Mayor, The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times, Princeton University Press, 2000
Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is, Basic Books 2001
Christopher McGowan, The Dragon
Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the
Dinosaurs and
Paved the Way for Darwin, Perseus Publishing, 2001
Christopher McGowan, The Raptor and the Lamb: Predators
and Prey in the Living World, Henry Holt and Company, 1997
Ralph E. Molnar, Dragons
in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard
Megalania, Indiana University Press, 2004
Simon Conway Morris, Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans
in a Lonely Universe, Cambridge University Press, 2003
Raymond C. Murray, Evidence from the
Earth: Forensic Geology and Criminal Investigation, Mountain
Press Publishing Company, 2004
Karl J. Niklas The
Evolutionary Biology of Plants, The University of
Chicago Press, 1997
David Norman, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, Crescent Books, 1985
David Norman, Prehistoric Life: The Rise
of the Vertebrates, Macmillan, Inc, 1994
Mark Norell, Discovering
Dinosaurs: In the American Museum of Natural History, Knopf,
1997
William Northduft and Josh Smith, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt, Random
House, 2002
Michael Novacek, Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs, Anchor Publishing, 1996
Michael Novacek, Time
Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals from Montana
to Mongolia, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002
David Owen, Tasmanian
Tiger: The Tragic Tale of How the Word Lost its Most Mysterious
Predator, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
Keith M. Parsons, Drawing
out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars, Indiana
University Press, 2002
Gregory S. Paul (editor), The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs, St. Martin's Press, 2000
Gregory S. Paul, Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of flight in Dinosaurs and Birds, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
Peter Raby, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life,
Princeton University Press, 2001
Mark Renz, Megalodon:
Hunting the Hunter, PaleoPress, 2002
Thomas H. Rich & Patricia Vickers-Rich, Dinosaurs
of Darkness, Indiana University Press, 2000
Phillip T. Robinson, Life at the Zoo: Behind the Scenes
with the Animal Doctors, Columbia University Press, 2004
Katherine Rogers, The
Sternberg Fossil
Hunters: A Dinosaur Dynasty, Mountain Press Publishing
Company,
1999
Martin J. S. Rudwick, The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Paleontology, University of Chicago Press, 1992
Dale A. Russell, An Odyssey in Time: The
Dinosaurs of North America, University of Toronto Press,
1989
Jose Luis Sanz, Starring T. rex!
Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, Indiana
University Press, 2002
Cristiano dal Sasso, Dinosaurs of Italy, Indiana
University Press, 2005
Judith G. Scotchmoor, Dale A. Springer, Brent H.
Breithaupt, Anthony R. Fiorillo, Dinosaurs:
The Science Behind the Stories, American Geological Institute,
2002
David R. Schwimmer, King of the
Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus, Indiana
University Press, 2002
Blaine W. Schubert, Jim I. Mead, and Russel W.
Graham, Ice Age Cave Faunas of North
America, Indiana University Press, 2003
Pat Shipman. Taking
Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight, Simon
and Schuster, 1998
Ross A. Slotten, The
Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace, Columbia
University Press, 2004
Rodney Steel and Anthony Harvey, The
Encyclopedia of Pre-Historic Life, Gramercy Publishing Company, 1979
Charles H. Sternberg, The Life of a Fossil Hunter, Indiana
University Press, 1990
Richard Stone, Mammoth:
The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant, Perseus Publishing, 2001
Darren Tanke and Kenneth Carpenter (editors), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, Indiana
University Press, 2001
Phillippe Taquet, Dinosaur
Impressions: Postcards from a Paleontologist, Cambridge
University Press, 1999
Mary Terrall, The
Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the
Enlightenment, University of Chicago Press, 2005
Virginia Tidwell and Kenneth Carpenter (editors), Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph
Dinosaurs, Indiana University Press, 2005
Keith S. Thomson, Living Fossil: The Story
of the Coelacanth, W. W. Norton and Company, 1991
Patricia Vickers-Rich and Thomas Hewitt Rich, Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and
Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent, Indiana
University Press, 2000
David Rains Wallace, The Bonehunters’ Revenge: Dinosaurs, greed, and the greatest scientific feud of the gilded age, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999
Samantha Weinberg, A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth, Perennial Books, 2000
David B. Weishamplel and Luther Young, Dinosaurs of the East Coast, John Hopkins University Press, 1996
Peter Wellnhofer, The Illustrated Encyclopedia
of Pterosaurs: An illustrated natural history of the flying reptiles of
the Mesozoic Era, Crescent Books, 1991
David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's
Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society,
The University of Chicago Press, 2002
Edward O. Wilson, The Future of Life, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002
Simon Winchester, Krakatoa:
The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, Harper
Collins Publishers, 2003
Simon Winchester, The Map That
Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology,
Harper Collins Publishing, 2001
Trevor H. Worthy and Richard N. Holdaway, The Lost World of the Moa:
Prehistoric Life of New Zealand, Indiana University Press, 2002
Carl Zimmer, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, Harper Collins Publishers, 2001
For the college student who is serious about paleontology, I recommend:
Michael J. Benton, Basic Paleontology, 1997
Michael J. Benton, Vertebrate Paleontology 2000
Richard S. Boardman, Alan H. Cheetham, and Albert J. Rowell, Fossil Invertebrates, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987
Derek E. G. Briggs and Peter Crowther (editors), Paleobiology: A Synthesis, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1990
Robert L. Carroll, Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, W. H. Freeman and Company, 1988
Phillip J. Currie and Kevin Padian, The Dinosaur Encyclopedia, Academic Press, 1997
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 1989
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W.W. Norton and Company, 1987
James O. Farlow (editor) Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs, Geological Society of America, 1989
James O. Farlow and M.K. Brett-Surman (editors) The
Complete Dinosaur, Indiana University Press, 1997
Donald F. Glut, Dinosaurs: The
Encyclopedia, McFarland and Company, 1997
Steven M. Goodman and Jonathan P. Bernstead (editors), The Natural History of Madagascar, The
University of Chicago Press, 2004
J. Alan Holman, Fossil Snakes of North America: Origin, Evolution, Distributuion, Paleoecology, Indiana University Press 2000
Patrick Leiggi and Peter May (editors) Vertebrate
Paleontology Techniques, Cambridge University Press, 1994
Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax, and James H. Brown, Foundations of Biogeography, The
University of Chicago Press, 2004
Scott L. Montgomery, The Chicago Guide to
Communicating Science, The University of Chicago Press, 2002
David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, and Halszka
Osmolska (editors) The Dinosauria, University of California
1990 (1st edition) and 2004 (2nd edition)
Diane Smith, Pictures from and Expedition, Viking Penguin, 2002
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