A Year in the World of Dinosaurs review
Phew, sorry for the hiatus folks! I had other stuff to work on (to varying degrees of success), but I'm back and mesozoic Mind is going back to the late 2000s with a picture book about what else? The Mesozoic. A Year in the World of Dinosaurs is a book by Elizabeth Havercroft and cobsulted on by Bristol's Michael Benton released around 2008 and '09 as part of the Time Goes By series, those picture books from libraries showing timelapses of certain places kids would like. In this case, Late Jurassic US. We start with a basic introduction. But we can skip it. The book begins proper with with showing the birth of some diplodocus . Naturally, the coelurosaur Ornitholestes comes to eat them, while Brachiosaurus are nearby. Sounds like a familar setup .... though funnily enough, the open is more akin to what we know sauropods did nest (or at least some, like titanosaurs). Next, as summer starts and the baby diplos are growing up, though the main focus is directed to a Stegosa