SuitabookDinosaur detectives
Linda Martin, DK Publishing, Peter Chrisp
- Reading
- Try reading one account alongside its nearby facts and images, then use the glossary to revisit unfamiliar terms. The page-border material also lends itself to dipping in and out rather than reading straight through.
- Themes
- Fossil hunters and evidence: The book brings together facts about fossil hunting and accounts of palaeontologists, including Mary Anning, Gideon Mantell and Jack Horner. Its structure combines factual material with fictionalised first-person accounts, offering both information and narrative rather than a purely factual account.
- Worth knowing
- The prose uses rich vocabulary and challenging sentence structures. The blend of factual information and fictionalised first-person accounts may make it useful to distinguish documented details from storytelling.