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When he visits the museum, Danny thinks it would be nice to play with a dinosaur and the dinosaur is just as eager to play with him. With Danny on the dinosaur's back, the two of them spend the day parading through the town, seeing the sights, offering their assistance to people, playing with the children, and upstaging animals at the zoo.
2) Dinosaurs
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Brief text and illustrations tell about dinosaurs, terrifying giants that once roamed Earth.
3) Santa Rex
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Celebrating Christmas, her favorite winter holiday, with her Cretaceous buddies, little Cordelia enjoys dino-style candy canes and hot cocoa and worries what Santa will think when the Christmas tree is accidentally toppled.
6) Dinosaur
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Packed with incredible statistics and facts about dinosaurs written in easy-to-grasp text, this kids book will help cultivate the paleontologists of tomorrow. Colorful, factual illustrations and fascinating first-hand accounts from experts offer a unique "eyewitness" view of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
12) Apatosaurus
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"Find out how the enormous, plant-eating Apatosaurus gained the name 'deceptive lizard.' Learn what role it played in 'The Great Bone Wars' of the 1870s. Follow the many changing theories surrounding Apatosaurus, and come up with your own ideas about what life was like for this strange and mysterious dinosaur! Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative sidebars, a glossary of key words and phrases, sources for further research,...
13) Ankylosaurus
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Ankylosaurus's name means "stiff lizard." Discover why as you learn what this dinosaur looked like and where it lived millions of years ago.
15) Maiasaura
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Examines what paleontologists have discovered about the plant-eating dinosaur Maiasaura, discussing when the first Maiasaura fossil was found, how they likely built their nests, and what Maiasaura babies were probably like.
17) Dino-wrestling
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Meat-eating and vegetarian dinosaurs compete at the wrestling jamboree, demonstrating such styles as sumo, Greco-Roman, and lucha libre.
19) Dinosaur's day
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A gentle Triceratops forgets to stay with the herd and has to use his sharp horns to fight a Tyrannosaurus.
20) Oviraptor
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Examines the physical and likely behavioral characteristics of oviraptors. Highlights the discovery of oviraptors bones. Includes summaries of Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, a glossary, resources for further information, and photographs.
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