Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Reptiles

For anyone in the "Second Wave" of the Baby Boom, THE GIANT GOLDEN BOOK OF DINOSAURS was the book that introduced us to dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles, and it did so with engagingly descriptive text, imagination, and, most importantly for its target audience, Rudolph Zallinger's truly classic, really wonderful, memorable full-color pictures of dinosaurs and other reptilians of the time going about their business in the deserts, junglelands, plains and valleys of their lost world. A good deal of the information in this original 1966 edition is now outdated due to subsequent discoveries about Mesozoic Earth, but regardless, Jane Werner Watson wrote an intelligent book for curious, intelligent and literate eight-year-old children raised in an era of scientific inquiry and discovery, for whom words like "Carboniferous," "Theropod," and "Saurischian" were not beyond comprehension. The sad fact is that most twenty- and thirty-somethings of 2007 would have trouble deciphering this Giant Golden Book written for elementary school children in the time of President Johnson's Great Society. . . . and Werner Watson said the DINOSAURS became extinct because they couldn't adapt . . .