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Ray, Deborah Kogan

Dinosaur Mountain: Digging into the Jurassic Age

40 pp. | Farrar/Foster | April, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-374-31789-8 $16.99

(2) 4-6 Earl Douglass's expeditions in what is now Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah began in 1908 when Andrew Carnegie sent him to find "something big." Dramatic illustrations show the land's harshness and isolation, and spot art sketching some fossil finds, tools, and preservation methods gives the book a field manual feel. Quotations from Douglass's journals indicate his reverence for the work.

Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2010