A Weekend with Dinosaurs

April 1, 2014

Gr 2-4-Though stocked with modest amounts of specific information, these "Magic School Bus"-style "field trips" seem slapped together. Weekend with Dinosaurs, for instance, is illustrated with dino portraits done in a large assortment of styles from photorealistic to sketched illustrations. In other volumes, readers are invited to board a "shrinking rocket" for a tour of the human body that jumps from system to system in a disconnected way, and though the author correctly notes that visitors to the International Space Station would now have to ride a Soyuz craft, a U.S. space shuttle is confusingly shown at the beginning. Lists of recommended museums related to each "trip" would have been particularly helpful.

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