The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Rushby, Pamela

Discovering SuperCroc

40 pp. | National | October, 2007 | Library ISBN 978-1-4263-0186-5 $17.90

(3) K-3 National Geographic Science Chapters series. This book describes the discovery of first the jaw and then other bones belonging to SuperCroc: a forty-foot-long prehistoric crocodile. The accessible text explains how paleontologists removed the fossils and reassembled them into a skeleton, and how SuperCroc compares to today's crocodiles. The many eye-catching photographs include close-ups of crocodile teeth on the striking endpapers. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Barbara Barstow