By Jerry Pallotta
Two dinosaurs, all their stats laid out side by side, and one imagined fight to settle who wins.
This book asks the exact question every dinosaur-obsessed child has already argued about at recess: in a fight, who would win, a Tyrannosaurus rex or a Velociraptor? It goes through the two of them fact by fact, how big, how fast, how sharp the teeth, how strong the bite, and then it actually stages the fight and gives you a winner. This time a whole pack of raptors teams up and takes the T. rex down.
This is the book that turns a child who 'doesn't like reading' into someone hunched over a page comparing tooth sizes. It's real nonfiction, genuine facts about each animal, but it's built like an argument they are dying to settle, so they read every word to find out who wins. There are a couple dozen more in the series, which is a gift the moment one of them clicks.