By MK Reed
A genuine dinosaur book in comic form, which is what finally gets the dinosaur-obsessed child to read one.
It's the entire story of dinosaurs told in comic panels: how they lived, how they died out, and how anyone came to know any of it. It follows the first bone-hunters, who dug up skeletons the size of houses and then feuded bitterly over the best finds; it shows how a fossil actually forms underground; and it gets to the headline that a lot of dinosaurs had feathers, and that birds are, in a real sense, dinosaurs that never left. A fact on nearly every page, but all of it drawn, so your child reads it the way they read any comic.
You know the child who can rattle off forty dinosaur names but shuts a chapter book after two pages? This is the one I'd hand them. It reads like their favorite comic, but it's carrying the real science, the kind that usually only lives in the fat reference book they page through and never finish. Here the facts arrive inside a story, with jokes and characters pulling them along, so they get to the end. And it's a series, so if this one lands there's a Sharks and a Bats and a Rockets behind it.