York County Library
 
Simple News Pro
  Rock Hill Children's Staff Picks  

Juvenile Easy and Picture Books

Dino-Thanksgiving

Lisa Wheeler - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Hardcover

Lisa Wheeler's bouncy, rhyming text and Barry Gott's energetic illustrations invite readers to celebrate a dino-style Thankgiving! Follow along as dinos travel over the river and through the woods to join together with family. They enjoy favorite activities, including a corn maze,...
 
 
How to Catch a Dinosaur

Adam Wallace - Sourcebooks Wonderland
Format: Hardcover

Do YOU have what it takes to catch a prehistoric pal? This newest installment in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series is sure to delight every dinosaur fan!Can you catch a dinosaurand prove they're still around?Use your brain and set your trapsto get that dino found!
 
 
Never Show a T. rex a Book

Rashmi Sirdeshpande - Kane Miller Books / EDC Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Supremely silly, fabulously funny, and wholly heartwarming - a book to celebrate the power of books and imagination, a book to be read again and again!
 
 
One-osaurus, Two-osaurus

Kim Norman
Format: Hardcover

One-osaurus, two-osaurus, three-osaurus, four!Look there, in a child's bedroom, where some prehistoric pals are gathered in a counting game. Nine dinosaurs are playing a sing-song rendition of hide-and-seek - but something isn't adding up. Where is number ten? Stomp, stomp, stomp!...
 
 
Tyrone O'Saurus Dreams

James Howe

Tyrone has a dream. But it seems like everyone else has their own dream for Tyrone. Should he be a dentist? A lawyer? A football player like his brother Johnny? None of these things make Tyrone happy. But then he meets the strongest dinosaur he's ever seen, who inspires him to follow...
 
 

Juvenile Fiction 

Dactyl Hill Squad: Rescue Run

DANIEL JOS OLDER - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

It's 1863 and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War rages between raptor-mounted armies down South. Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are on a field trip when the Draft Riots break out, and a number of their fellow orphans are kidnapped by an evil...
 
 
Knights vs. Dinosaurs

MATT PHELAN - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Renowned for their courage, their chivalry, and their ability to fight mythical creatures, the Knights of the Round Table must face their most dangerous opponents yet - DINOSAURS!This heavily illustrated middle grade novel from award-winning author and artist Matt Phelan is a hilarious,...
 
 
Peter Lee's Notes from the Field

Angela Ahn - Tundra Books
Format: Hardcover

Eleven year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. Okay, maybe two: to get his genius kid-sister, L.B., to leave him alone. But his summer falls apart when his real-life dinosaur expedition turns out to be a bust, and he watches his dreams go up in a cloud of asthma-inducing...
 
 
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In the latest novel in New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs's FunJungle series, Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle's resident sleuth to solve his most improbable mystery yet - with a victim that's 65 million years old.Teddy was all set for a campout at his friend Sage's...
 
 
Welcome to Camp Woggle

ADELE GRIFFIN - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Who says kids are the only ones who can have fun during the summer? Oona Oodlethunk and her brother Bonk are ready to change all that. When they hatch a plan to create a "Collected Animals Meeting Place," Camp Woggle is born! But hold onto your sunhat, this isn't your typical...
 
 

Juvenile Non-Fiction

The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth

Ian Lendler - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Join early scientists as they piece together one of humanity's greatest puzzles - the fossilized bones of the first dinosaur!Dinosaurs existed. That's a fact we accept today. But not so long ago, the concept that these giant creatures could have roamed Earth millions of years before...
 
 
The Science of Prehistoric Giants: Dinosaurs That Used Size and Armor for Defense

Ian Graham - Franklin Watts
Format: Library Binding

The first dinosaurs were small meat-eaters, or carnivores, that snapped up bugs and other small creatures. Then some dinosaurs started eating plants. They were herbivores. Over millions of years, bigger and bigger dinosaurs evolved. The plant-eaters, or herbivores, were the biggest by far....
 
 
The Secrets of Dinosaurs

Yang - Brown Books Pub Group
Format: Hardcover

- Matt Lamanna, Mary R. Dawson Associate Curator and Head of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Lance Grande, Negaunee Distinguished Service Curator of the Field Museum, Author of Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums - Dr. Patrick O'Connor,...
 
 
Titanosaur: Discovering the World's Largest Dinosaur

Diego Pol - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Get ready to meet the Titanosaur -- the biggest, heaviest creature to ever walk the Earth! This book tells the story of the discovery of this new dinosaur from the mouths of the paleontologists who led the dig! From its discovery by a local herder, to the organization and completion of the excavation,...
 
 
Dinosaur Jokes

Pam Rosenberg - Child's World
Format: Print book

How do dinosaurs pay their bills? With Tyrannosaurus checks! What should you do if a dinosaur sneezes? Why, get out of the way, of course! These are just two of the dinosaur jokes that will have you laughing and rolling on the floor until your stomach is, well, saurus.