When Sue Found Sue: Sue Hendrikson Discovers Her T-Rex

By Toni Buzzeo, Illustrated by Diana Sudyka

From a very young age, Sue Hendrickson was meant to find things: lost coins, perfume bottles, even hidden treasure. Her endless curiosity eventually led to her career in diving and paleontology, where she would continue to find things big and small. In 1990, at a dig in South Dakota, Sue made her biggest discovery to date: Sue the T. Rex, the largest and most complete T. Rex skeleton ever unearthed. Named in Sue’s honor, Sue the T. Rex would be placed on permanent exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. When Sue Found Sue inspires readers to take a closer look at the world around them and to never lose their brave, adventurous spirits. 4-8 years

Barnum Brown: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World

By Tracey Fern, Illustrated by Boris Kulikov

Barnum Brown’s parents named him after the circus icon, P.T. Barnum, hoping that he would do something extraordinary — and he did! As a paleontologist for the American Museum of Natural History, he discovered the first documented skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as most of the other dinosaurs on display at the museum today. A fun picture book biography, with zany illustrations by Boris Kulikov, that captures the spirit of this remarkable man. 5-9 years

Digging Up Dinosaurs

By Aliki

How did those enormous dinosaur skeletons get inside the museum? Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then, suddenly, they died out. For thousands of years, no one knew these giant creatures had ever existed. Then people began finding fossils — bones and teeth and footprints that had turned to stone. Today, teams of experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground, bone by fragile bone. Then they put the skeletons together again inside museums, to look just like the dinosaurs of millions of years ago. 4-8 years

How the Dinosaur Got to the Museum

By Jessie Hartland

Author/illustrator Jessie Hartland presents the fascinating 145-million-year journey of a dinosaur: a Diplodocus longus, from its discovery in 1923 in Utah to its arrival in the hallowed halls of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.  6-9 years

Mister Bones: Dinosaur Hunter

By Jane Kurtz, Illustrated by Mary Haverfield

Barnum Brown loves to dig in the dirt. He pokes and he sifts and he picks through the dirt. What is he looking for? Not gold, but something just as valuable: Bones! Dinosaur bones! And what he finds is an amazing thing. 4-6 years

A Dinosaur Named Sue

By Faye Robinson, Illustrated by Portia Sloan

A Dinosaur Named Sue follows the amazing story of Sue, the largest and most complete T-Rex fossil ever found, from her discovery in the Badlands of South Dakota in 1990, to the exciting restoration work leading up to her Spring 2000 public debut.  4-8 years

Dinosaur Hunters

By Kate McMullan, Illustrated by John R. Jones

Less than 200 years ago, nobody knew that dinosaurs had ever existed. Now, scientists who study fossils know about many kinds of dinosaurs and where they lived. The hunt is on for new information about our favorite prehistoric reptiles!  7-9 years  

Dinosaur Hunters: A Big Dig Adventure

By Catherine Chambers

In DK Adventures: Dinosaur Hunters, our time travelers find themselves caught up in the rivalry between dinosaur bone hunters Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope. They have to use critical thinking and historical knowledge to decide whether to interfere with scientific discovery or leave well enough alone. 8-12 years  

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

By Barbara Kerley, Illustrated by Brian Selznick

Can you imagine a time when almost no one in the world knew what a dinosaur looked like? That was true until the mid-nineteenth century, when a Victorian artist, Waterhouse Hawkins, built the first life-size models of dinosaurs, first in his native England and later in New York City, and dazzled the world with his awe-inspiring creatures. 4-8 years

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