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Manassa Jack Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 1014 View User Posts	Vintage Dinosaur Books Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:53 pm Central Time A lot has been added to our knowledge of dinosaurs over the last 20 years but I still have a soft spot in my heart for the dinosaur books I read, re-read, and read again as a little boy. Recently, I tried to hunt down a book that I regularly checked out from my library but never owned and, in so doing, came across this site, which is sure to delight any former/current dinosaur geek like myself: http://mysite.verizon.net/markcrowell/Welcome%20to%20Vintage%20Dinosaur%20Books.html
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PacManDreaming Member Since: December 2005 Contributions: 956 Gold Stars: 40 View User Posts	Re: Vintage Dinosaur Books Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:43 am Central Time I have a ton of dinosaur books stretching from the early 1970s until today. One of my favorites was Prehistoric Animals : The 1976 Childcraft Annual. Dinosaurs were my favorite things when I was growing up. I still love to read about them and I like all of the BBC videos about them and other prehistoric life.
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Manassa Jack Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 1014 View User Posts	Re: Vintage Dinosaur Books Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:21 pm Central Time PacManDreaming wrote: I have a ton of dinosaur books stretching from the early 1970s until today. One of my favorites was Prehistoric Animals : The 1976 Childcraft Annual. Dinosaurs were my favorite things when I was growing up. I still love to read about them and I like all of the BBC videos about them and other prehistoric life. view What they can do with CGI nowadays is amazing. Did you see Walking with Dinosaurs or any of the episodes of *Jurassic Fight Club*? Really good stuff, I thought.
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PacManDreaming Member Since: December 2005 Contributions: 956 Gold Stars: 40 View User Posts	Re: Vintage Dinosaur Books Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:31 pm Central Time Manassa Jack wrote: What they can do with CGI nowadays is amazing. Did you see Walking with Dinosaurs or any of the episodes of *Jurassic Fight Club? Really good stuff, I thought. view I have Walking with Dinosaurs* and every other Walking with... series made by the BBC. My favorites are Allosaurus and Chased by Dinosaurs.
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mwsmedia Member Since: September 2009 Contributions: 214 Gold Stars: 4 View User Posts	Re: Vintage Dinosaur Books Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:56 pm Central Time I have a bunch of vintage dino books from when I was a kid. I'll do my best to scan some covers and share, soon..! Stuff like the How and Why Book of Prehistoric Animals; stuff by the real-life Indian Jones, Roy Chapman Andrews, etc. _________________ Matthew Wayne Selznick Chief Evangelist http://www.retroland.com
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Saucerian Member Since: August 2009 Contributions: 287 Gold Stars: 21 View User Posts	Re: Vintage Dinosaur Books Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:29 pm Central Time Anyone else remember a bizarre book I vaguely recall from my grade school library, Riding A Dinosaur? It was about an invisible dinosaur who, for reasons that escape me, shrinks a guy to kid-size and takes him on a cross-country journey.
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Manassa Jack Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 1014 View User Posts	Re: Vintage Dinosaur Books Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:58 pm Central Time mwsmedia wrote: I have a bunch of vintage dino books from when I was a kid. I'll do my best to scan some covers and share, soon..! Stuff like the How and Why Book of Prehistoric Animals; stuff by the real-life Indian Jones, Roy Chapman Andrews, etc. view I bet I had the same 'How & Why' book-- actually, I had a couple of them. My personal favorite was "Life Before Man," which I acquired when I was in about the 5th grade.
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