Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Print ListDinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo
By: William Joyce
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Dinosaur Train
By: John Steven Gurney
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Does Jesse travel back in time or is an imaginative jaunt when he boards a train with a...
Dinosaur!
By: Peter Sis
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When a boy's toy dinosaurs come to life, a whole new world is created in his bathtub. No...
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
By: Byron Barton
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct
By: Mo Willems
Age Level: 3-6 years old
How Big Were the Dinosaurs?
By: Bernard Most
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Dinosaurs are endlessly fascinating. Perhaps because it is hard to imagine giant lizards roaming...
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
By: Jane Yolen
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Ten sleepy dinosaurs get ready for bed in this celebration of funny, endearing, and naughty...
My First Dinosaur Atlas: Roar Around the World with the Mightiest Beasts Ever!
By: Penny Arlon
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Journey back in time and around the world to learn about dozens of dinosaurs in this colorfully...
Roar: A Dinosaur Tour
By: Michael Paul
Age Level: 3-6 years old
“Millions of year ago, dinosaurs walked the Earth.” Some were small, some walked on two legs,...
Stegothesaurus
By: Bridget Heos
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The third brother was a different kind of dinosaur. Rather than a more typical stegosaurus, he...
Stomp, Dinosaur, Stomp!
By: Margaret Mayo
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Meet massive, wrinkly, stiff-tailed, feathered and more dinosaurs as they stomp, guard, and gulp...
Tea Rex
By: Molly Idle
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A Miss Manners–style primer on how to throw a delightfully proper tea party for a dinosaur...
Time Flies
By: Eric Rohmann
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A wordless time-travel adventure and a meditation on the scientific theory that dinosaurs were...
Time Train
By: Paul Fleischman
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Join Miss Pym's students as they take a memorable train trip across the U.S. to a time and...
Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Edna the Very First Chicken
By: Douglas Rees
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Tyrannosaurus Rex wants breakfast. He stomps and he roars and he gnashes his teeth ― and he...
When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
By: Elise Broach
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Print ListArchaeologists Dig for Clues
By: Kate Duke
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Archaeologists on a dig work very much like detectives at a crime scene. Every chipped rock,...
Barnum's Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World
By: Tracey Fern
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs
By: Kathleen V. Kudlinski
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Chalk
By: Bill Thomson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Join three children who find a magical piece of chalk that begins an exciting series of events...
Chicken Frank, Dinosaur!
By: S.K. Wenger
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Chicken Frank wants to prove he’s related to a T.rex ― because of evolution! ― but none of the...
Dad and the Dinosaur
By: Jennifer Choldenko
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A father-son story about bravery and facing fears. With his toy dinosaur, Nicholas can scale...
Digging Up Dinosaurs
By: A Aliki
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Dinosaur Feathers
By: Dennis Nolan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Through rhyming text, learn about the evolutionary link between million-year-old dinosaurs and...
Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life
By: Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Showcasing more than 90 remarkable fossils, such as a Tyrannosaurus skull, delicate fern leaf,...
Dinosaurs Are Not Extinct: Real Facts About Real Dinosaurs
By: Drew Sheneman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
When an asteroid crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago, it killed all the dinosaurs ......
Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House series)
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Dinosaurs: By the Numbers
By: Steve Jenkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Through infographics, illustrations, facts, and figures, readers will learn about the giants...
Dinosaurs: The Biggest, Baddest, Strangest, Fastest
By: Harold Zimmerman, George Olshevsky
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The large format of this book is perfect for the theatrical, sometimes spectacular, full color...
Dinotrux
By: Chris Gall
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Millions of years ago, huge, hungry prehistoric 'dinotrux' ruled the world. A terrible...
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs
By: Robert Sabuda, Matthew Reinhart
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Information appears alongside beautifully designed pop-up constructions in this overview of all...
Feathered Dinosaurs of China
By: Gregory Wenzel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Step back in time 124 million years, inside the world of the feathered dinosaurs to learn about...
Fly Guy Presents: Dinosaurs
By: Tedd Arnold
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Fly Guy and Buzz are ready for their next field trip as they visit a natural history museum to...
If the Dinosaurs Came Back
By: Bernard Most
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
What would happen if the dinosaurs returned? A small boy imagines a world where dinosaurs...
Let’s Investigate with Nate: Dinosaurs
By: Nate Ball
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Travel with Nate Bell and a group of kids whose adventure begins at the Science Museum. They...
Mad Scientist Academy: The Dinosaur Disaster
By: Matthew McElligott
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
The seven new students at Mad Scientist Academy include a werewolf, a robot, and other odd...
Monster Fliers: From the Time of the Dinosaurs
By: Elizabeth MacLeod
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
While the dinosaurs walked the earth, pterosaurs (flying reptiles), ancient birds and other...
My Book of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life: Animals and Plants to Amaze, Surprise, and Astonish!
By: Dean Lomax
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Young dinosaur lovers are introduced to an amazing range of prehistoric beasts through facts and...
My Encyclopedia of Very Important Dinosaurs
By: DK
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Full of up-to-date facts and discoveries, this encyclopedia includes everything from an in-depth...
My First Big Book of Dinosaur Facts
By: Ruth Owen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
This book introduces young readers to all key science and facts about dinosaurs in a fun...
Prehistoric Actual Size
By: Steve Jenkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
What is it like to come face-to-face with the ten-foot-tall terror bird? Or stare into the mouth...
The Bone Wars: The True Story of an Epic Battle to Find Dinosaur Fossils
By: Jane Kurtz
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Discover the true story of the race between two paleontologists to find the best dinosaur...
The Dinosaur Expert
By: Margaret McNamara
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Join Mr. Tiffin's class as they learn about dinosaurs big and small, feathered and scaly, winged...
The Dinosaur Museum
By: National Geographic
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This interactive guide takes you on a room-by-room tour of a natural history museum.You can open...
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
By: Barbara Kerley
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Mr. Hawkins was a 19th century British artist with a passion for dinosaurs. This illustrated...
The Magic School Bus: In the Time of the Dinosaurs
By: Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Everyone's favorite science teacher is back as Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a journey...
The Talking T. Rex (An A to Z Mystery)
By: Ron Roy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Friends and amateur detectives Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose set out to help their friend whose...
There's a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor
By: Wade Bradford
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
There is something a bit unusual about the Sharemore Hotel. When an exhausted Mr. Snore checks...
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Print ListChildren's Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs
By: Clare Hibbert
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Full of fascinating facts and dramatic illustrations, and based on the latest paleontological...
Dinosaur Empire! Journey through the Mesozoic Era
By: Abby Howard
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Travel back in time to the age of the dinosaurs with fifth-grader Abby and her neighbor—Ms....
Dinosaurs! (Explorer series)
By: Christopher Lloyd, Nick Forshaw
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Dinosaurs, endlessly fascinating, continue to be explored. Current information is presented in...
Dinosaurs: A Visual Encyclopedia
By: DK
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
The history of all life on Earth, with a special focus on dinosaurs, featuring details of over...
Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers (Science Comics Series)
By: MK Reed
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
In this graphic novel, learn all about the history of paleontology! This fascinating look at...
Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
By: James Gurney
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
In this fantasy classic, young readers imagine an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked...
Fossil Hunter: How Mary Anning Changed the Science of Prehistoric Life
By: Cheryl Blackford
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
With engaging text, photographs, and vivid paleoart, this biography introduces Mary Anning, the...
Knights vs. Dinosaurs
By: Matt Phelan
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Renowned for their courage, their chivalry, and their ability to fight mythical creatures, the...
The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals
By: Steve Brusatte
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Think you know about dinosaurs? Think again! Paleontologist Steve Brusatte brings young...
The Clues Are in the Poo: The Story of Dinosaur Scientist Karen Chin
By: Jane Kurtz, Karen Chin
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Embark on an exciting adventure with paleontologist Karen Chin as she hunts for treasure unlike...
The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science
By: Marc Aronson, Adrienne Mayor
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
As a young student, Mayor wondered: Is the mythical griffin based on ancient people’s...