I remember my teacher reading the class The Enormous Egg, by Oliver Butterworth. In the dim recesses of my mind I also remember this as an overlap with the small plastic dinosaurs that came in the lunch pack box of corn chips. As much as I enjoyed the book (and went on to read it a few times on my own), I would have preferred a dragon hatching out of that egg! (I'd read My Father's Dragon, by Ruth Stiles Gannett some years earlier).

Martin Greenberg has put together dozens of wonderful collections of short stories in a variety of themes, and Dinosaurs: Stories By Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Many More is no exception. The stories by the lesser known authors were good, too. ;-)

I have not read Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park, but after seeing the movie I read The Making of Jurassic Park: An Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making, by Don Shay and Jody Duncan. Not the same, to be sure, but a very interesting book. And, learning how things were done did not diminish the magic of the movie in any way.

Cowboys and dinosaurs make for an unlikely combination but come together nicely in Dinosaur Hunter by Homer Hickam. An amazing discovery on Montana BLM land sparks the 'dinosaur bug' in a local cowboy (a former cop) who joins the team, and then helps bring the bad guy to justice when there is a murder. Good descriptions of Montana and nice character development.

My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road With Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs, by Brian Switek turned out to be an unexpected pleasure. I was intrigued from the start, but the further I got into the book, the harder it was to put down. It is obvious that the author loves dinosaurs, has since he was a kid, actually. Much has changed in his life time in what is known about dinosaurs, including the Brontosaurus and this book explains these changes (many dinosaurs, even those who did not become birds), may have had a sort of fuzz. They may have had much more colorful skin than we first thought. Perhaps they were much more social ... and so on. There is a lot of humor here, too, which makes it all the more fun to read.

Reading Hermit With Dog