📖 Dinosaurs: The Grand Tour by Keiron Pim. This 350-page book, subtitled "Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs from Sardonyx to Zuniceratops," is a great reference to have on hand as you study dinosaurs; it's well-illustrated, logically organized, and packed with up-to-date scientific information. – All

📖 The Late Jurassic and The Early Cretaceous by Juan Carlos Alonso and Gregory Paul. Featuring “notes, drawings, and observations from Prehistory,” these two titles in Alonso’s Animal Journal series immerse readers in the Mesozoic world. Parents and kids will enjoy the creative “field guide” format and the lovely illustrations. These in-depth guides are clearly meant to be pored over. – Elementary • Middle

📖 Dinosaurium by Chris Wormed and Lilly Murray. This oversized, highly visual title in the Welcome to the Museum series leads readers through a tour of the Age of the Dinosaurs: “As you wander through the pages of this book, you will tour galleries that reveal how dinosaurs lived and how they changed over time.” A treat for the dinosaur-lover in your life. – All

📖 The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs by Joanna Cole. Miss Frizzle transports her students back to the Mesozoic Era in this Magic School Bus book. Join the class as they learn about paleontology, fossilization, ancient climates and landforms, and the plants and animals of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods. – Preschool • Elementary

📖 Dinosaurs Big and Small by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. This Stage 1 Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out title is a very simple introduction to dinosaurs, perfect for the youngest children. – Preschool • Elementary

📖 Dinosaur Tracks by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. This Stage 2 entry in the Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out series explains how dinosaur prints were preserved and what they can tell us about the creatures that made them. – Preschool • Elementary

📖 Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. This Stage 2 LRAFO book explores evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs (see How Dinosaurs Took Flight below for a more in-depth treatment of this topic). – Preschool • Elementary

📖 Where Did Dinosaurs Come From? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. This Stage 2 LRAFO title takes us back to the time before dinosaurs and explains the anatomical changes that would eventually lead to the evolution of dinosaurs. – Preschool • Elementary

📖 Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs by Nic Bishop. This Scientists in the Field title takes us to Madagascar with scientists searching for the missing link between dinosaurs and birds. Though somewhat out of date (the book was published in 2000), Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs offers a nice window into the painstaking process of paleontological field research. – Elementary • Middle

📖 How Dinosaurs Took Flight by Christopher Sloan. In How Dinosaurs Took Flight, Sloan makes the case (now widely accepted) that birds are descended from dinosaurs. The book adopts the technique of posing a question, presenting evidence, and deriving one or more hypotheses; certain unanswered questions are marked as "Unsolved Mysteries." It's a nice demonstration of the scientific method. ​– Elementary • Middle

📺 Walking with Dinosaurs from BBC. The six 30-minute episodes in this popular miniseries introduce the dinosaurs of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, as well as the Mesozoic reptiles that made their homes in the seas and skies. – Elementary • Middle

📖 How the Dinosaur Got to the Museum by Jessie Hartland. This cumulative story, written in sing-song verse, gives a fine introduction to paleontology, fossilization, and the process of preparing an ancient skeleton for display in a museum; in this case, it's a diplodocus on display at the Smithsonian. – Elementary

📖 Jurassic Poop: What Dinosaurs (and Others) Left Behind by Jacob Berkowitz. This cheeky, informative book will be a sure hit with anyone who finds bodily waste to be endlessly fascinating/hilarious. Despite the title, Jurassic Poop is more about paleontology and coprolite analysis than about dinosaurs or the Jurassic Period specifically. – Elementary