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Dinosaur (Ultimate Sticker Books) |  | Author: DK Publishing
Brand: DK Publishing
List Price: $6.99
Buy New: $1.75
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Seller: Avenue Book & Co.
Rating:  3 reviews
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 16
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.4 x 0.1
MPN: 9780756602352
ISBN: 0756602351
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
UPC: 690472002352
EAN: 9780756602352
Publication Date: August 16, 2004
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Product Description
Dinosaurs features stickers and facts about every kind of dinosaur imaginable, from towering T-rex to wily Compsognathus. More than just sticker books, DK's Sticker Encyclopedias feature a wealth of facts and jaw-dropping statistics. Readers can use the book's hundreds of stickers to illustrate these facts, create their own scenes, or add some pizzazz to their school supplies and lockers.
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 Old-fashioned and rather misleading...but the stickers might still entertain. August 16, 2009
Science-Minded
This book is a collection of reusable stickers with some explanatory text. There are also a few double-paged backdrops--some rather sketchy-looking scenes with rocks and vegetation on which kids can arrange their stickers.
It's an odd collection of images. Many of them are rather uninspiring and old fashioned. It looks as though the main criterion for including a picture in this book was being an old, cheap, or public domain image. You won't find any feathered dinosaurs here. None of the feathered dinosaurs of China are included in the book. And the dromaeosaurids ("raptor" dinosaurs) are depicted as featherless, scaly creatures.
So these aren't the latest, vibrant, anatomically-detailed illustrations available. Indeed, if you look on the back cover you'll see an Iguanodon that could have been drawn in the 19th century. The dinosaur is using its tail as a prop for standing up, like a kangaroo.
The organization and text can be misleading. For example, there is a page devoted to birds that includes pterosaurs and bats. I assume that the author knows that pterosaurs and bats are not birds. But the text makes no attempt to clarify this point.
Elsewhere, the text notes that dinosaurs had scaly skin. It would be more correct to say that dinosaurs had a variety of skin textures, and that some even had feathers. At another point, the text notes that sabertoothed cats had "serrated" teeth. I don't know what the author is referring to unless she's talking about the carnassial teeth (which are in the back of the mouth and a common feature of mammalian carnivore dentition).
Some stickers are just odd. There is an image of a Sivapithecus skull. It looks good, I suppose, and the text correctly identifies Sivapithecus as an ancestor of the orangutan. Never mind the obvious question--what is this doing in a dinosaur book? The book doesn't even include a picture of a living animal (i.e., a reconstruction of Sivapithecus or a photo of an orangutan). So it's just a skull out of context.
Overall? This book has some entertainment value. Kids can peel the stickers off and put them in various positions against the backdrops. It's fun to look at--as long as you don't look too closely. If amazon allowed me to award half points, I'd give it 2.5 stars. But this book isn't a great source of accurate information--visual or otherwise--about extinct animals.
- Parenting Science
 Great for dinosaur loving kids March 27, 2009
Mrs. CPB (Los Angeles, CA USA)
My 3 1/2 year old son loves this book. He was able to do the stickers with very little help (peeling them off without ripping them can be a little tricky depending on the shape) and now that the book is finished, we read it over and over again. The stickers are easy to reposition for at least a few weeks but then the glue becomes sort of permanent.
 Ultimate Sticker Books not so hot June 18, 2006
S. Rauch (Austin, TX USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I really don't like the Ultimate Sticker Book series books. I've bought several for my 4 year-old twins and found them to be very difficult for the kids to use. The pages are plain, unexciting and text-heavy -- not good for pre-readers. For pre-schoolers I highly recommend the sticker books by Roger Priddy (My Giant Sticker Activity Book is a favorite).
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