A lovely and informative read for your elementry school kids. It was a bit of a stretch for my toddler, but he reall enjoyed flipping through the pictures!

This is an engaging and nicely illustrated book about dinosaurs that my 5 year old loved. She asked lots of questions and the quizzes provide an interactive element to the book. It is something that she would look at herself and engage in for reading time. We loved going through this book together and will likely do so again in the future.

Aimed to the early grades, but fun for any age. I do think that it is best read with the target audience before they choose to reread by themselves. The illustrations by Ana Seixas are simple, effective, and colorful. There are sections for pronunciations, fossil clues, size references, family groups, habitat (Ground, sky, ocean), diet, feathers/fur/scales. Looking forward to enjoying it with the grands!
I requested and received a free temporary ebook from Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books/ Happy Yak via NetGalley. THANK YOU!

A fantastic dinosaur book for any Dino lover. My little one is Dino crazy and we both enjoyed reading this together. I love the how to day the dinosaurs names (it helps to know these with a Dino crazed boy)

The facts are brilliant and very informative. From fossil to egg to how dinosaurs lived this book covers it all.

The illustrations are really fun, child friendly and whimsical.

This book really surprised me. It was not at all what I was expecting based on the cover and title.

Due to the fact that the title is "My First" Book of Dinosaur Comparisons, I thought this book would be targeting baby or toddler children. However, when I opened it up, the text was actually really complex. It would be a much better fit for upper elementary kids.

I think the title completely missed the mark. I teach 4th graders, and they would not pick up a book that says "My First" in the title. They would tell me instantly that it is a baby book without giving it a chance and opening up to see the book is at their reading levels.

I would absolutely go back to the title and cover art. Make it fit the older audience that this book was written for. It is a great book. I just don't want it to get overlook because of poor branding.

This is a wonderful book for children who are really interested in facts, and the illustrations are lovely. Will save this one for when my daughter is older.

Thank you NetGalley for the free ebook copy in exchange of an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books for kindly providing me with a digital copy of this book for review.
Ok, so if you have an autistic person in your life, you will probably be aware that many autistic people can develop strong interests in a particular topic or thing, and these often border on obsession. My eldest son’s is Ancient Egypt, and my youngest son’s is- you guessed it.....dinosaurs. I read more dinosaur books to him than you can shake a stick at quite frankly. I don’t want to boast, but I might be able to go for a palaeontology degree soon (as well as an Egyptology one as well, why not?)
So, how does this new dinosaur book measure up against the extensive library of other dinosaur books I have lovingly read to my son? Quite well actually! This is packed full with many dinosaur facts, and even expert that I am, I learned some new things as well. Although I still struggle to pronounce the names (even with the handy pronunciation guide at the beginning of the book). It’s laid out in a methodical way that isn’t confusing and using quick bullet point type facts, so there’s not reams of sentences to get lost in. My son really enjoyed the artwork and the book kept him completely captured enough to read it through together in one sitting. Which considering my son is also suspected of having ADHD, is no mean feet. He’s even told me that he wants a physical copy of the book for his birthday later in the year, so I can’t think of a better way to recommend it than that.

This book is so cute and has so many fun graphics for kids of all ages. The book is educational and also gives a lot of information about dinosaurs at the same time.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for a copy to honestly review.

Love the graphics showing the size comparisons. A fun book that you could use with a variety of ages.

This book is perfect for any dinosaur fanatic! There is great information and engaging illustrations. I could imagine my students saying "did you know"? There were many common dinosaurs as well as ones I had never heard of. Beautiful job!

The book is interesting and fun but it’s more oriented towards teenagers than kids. My 9 years old loves dinosaurs and some pages he loved while others confused him. I was expecting a more of a children book.

An excellent enrichment book for budding scientists! Also a very enticing book for reluctant readers that's full of relatable trivia that can be tackled in manageable "bites".

The illustrations were vivid, colorful, and appealing. 8 year-old me would have regularly pulled this off the classroom library shelf and spent many happy hours learning about dinosaurs in fascinating depth! I love the breadth of topics covered (geological time, life cycle, social organization, eating habits, etc.). I also appreciated the pronunciation guide and quizzes. This would make a great addition to any elementary school or classroom library!

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

My boys really enjoyed this book! The pages are very visually pleasing and informative with tons of fun facts and comparisons. I especially enjoyed the section on prehistoric plants, as it brought something different to the typical dinosaur book.

Review to come July 10th on blog/goodreads.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

My blog readers know that I am a big dinosaur fan and that I just cannot resist dinosaur books. Well, my readers also know I am not a fan of those feathery things they call dinosaurs these days. Haha. But I am willing to give books a shot. I was definitely curious about this one, I love books that compare x to y and I was interested to see what kind of things we would get comparisons to in regards to dinosaurs.

Sadly, I am disappointed. It wasn't until page 20 that we got some actual comparisons. Before that there were some mentions in text that told us how big something was by comparing it to something we know, but there was no example. Until page 20 when we see a city scape and a couple of dinosaurs. Then it became truly fun. Because just mentioning it is great, but if that is all the comparing you are going to do then I wouldn't call you a comparison book. You need to show me (and the rest of the people who read your book). Sadly, after just a few pages we were back to other dinosaurs facts and we only got a few fun comparisons, mostly in text. Then a few pages with comparisons, and then back to none/text. When I saw this book I expected comparisons, illustrated. Tons of them. A whole book about it. With ILLUSTRATED examples for all of it. Not just 14-ish pages out of 48.... 

Sure, the book was interesting to read, but if I wanted facts on dinosaurs I would have just grabbed one of the books I own, because the information is not new to me. I picked up this book because it seemed to have something new. And it did. At points. But just not enough that I would call this a Dinosaur Comparison book. 

The illustrations were OK-ish. At times I liked the style, at other times the dinosaurs looked a bit too simple. 

All in all, I sadly cannot rate this book high. Again, I wanted a book with ILLUSTRATED comparisons, not just a few pages here and there. I mean, a lot of books add comparisons (especially in text), if you want to name your book a comparison book go for it in a bold way with tons of ILLUSTRATED comparisons.

Hmmm, journalistic comparisons. Never mind adults getting completely bamboozled by things these days being the size of Wales (or Rhode Island, or even more pointlessly, Chad) - let's get the kids on to such a losing wicket. I did find some really good pages in this quick read – even though we've never knowingly found a T Rex egg this can show us the sizes it went through until adulthood – and just like us it stopped growing after its mid-teens. But an insistence on comparing everything to something else is very reductive, and not helpful, for various reasons.

One, it relies on the comparison being global. I was going to say 'not every reader of this will have had access to bowling balls' (one of the standard units here, as a prehistoric cycad plant weighed four of them), until the London bus turns up. Countless potential readers will have no idea what that specifically refers to.

Two, a lot of references are just plain unhelpful because they're impossible to visualise. A 26-storey building. OK. Yeah, I can get that specificity, of course – I often lambast the 25-storey buildings in my life for coming up short.

Three, a lot of references just don't hold water. Something is as tall as a poodle – is that toy, miniature or standard, and pre- or post-haircut?

You get the gist. A lot of this presents a lot of data wonderfully – it's very readable, and while it focuses on the superlatives (the strongest bite, the tallest this, the heaviest that, etc) it's by no means alone in that. Its cartoonish visual is nicely sustained and presented, and it has little pop-out quizzes at times to get us thinking and revising. But whether things are as long as a golf club or three alligators (?!), some of this is as useful as cropping a 12" record to fit inside a CD player. Damn it – now I've got the bug of making trashy comparisons that young readers will neither fathom nor need. A 'first book' of such things is OK as I hope I never see any more; while this is acceptable for school libraries it should be an addendum to one's learning, and not the core of it.