Discovering Dinosaurs

Discovering Dinosaurs, my latest non-fiction book will be published tomorrow and I can't wait to see the finished copies. Keep a look out for it in your school or library.

Dinosaurs are really famous. We see them in movies. We read about them in books and magazines. There are even dinosaur action figures and cuddly toys. This is pretty impressive, especially when you think that the last land-living dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago! 

This book will take you on a visit to the dinosaur museum, where you'll discover: - the ways that dinosaurs are classified and what their names mean - how people identify dinosaurs from their fossils - the mistakes people have made about dinosaurs - what happened to the dinosaurs and whether they still exist today.... 

Discovering Dinosaurs is part of the Reading Planet Cosmos range of books from Hodder Education. Cosmos provides a vibrant collection of fiction and non-fiction books that will widen children's reading horizons. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 8-9 years.

Discovering Dinosaurs

It's always exciting to see books finally come together with the artwork and covers. Here's the cover of a book that I was working on last year and into the early part of this year.

Discovering Dinosaurs is a non-fiction books about... well, discovering dinosaurs. Rather than just looking at different types of dinosaur it looks at how and what we know about dinosaurs aswell as how they are discovered. 

There is, of course, lots of information about different kinds of dinosaurs but the book starts by answering questions like "What is a dinosaur?" (and what isn't a dinosaur?). "What are fossils?" (how they are made, where they can be found, as well as what they can tell us). Other topics include dinosaur names, types of dinosaur and how to identify them, what poeple have got wrong about dinosaurs, and what happened to dinosaurs?

I have always been interested in dinosaurs so I knew a little bit about them before I started - but I was amazed by what I didn't know. I had to do a lot of research to write this book and I really hope that people enjoy reading it.

Discovering Dinosaurs will be published on 27th October in the Rising Stars Reading Planet series.