Give the Gift of Reading: Dinosaurium

What a wonderful gift idea - thanks!

It would be a great gift idea....and I bet we have most of those 10 little books too...LOL. My son went though a dinosaur phase...now it's my nephew's turn.

My 4 year old grandson, Derek, is just beginning that dinosaur phase and he would love these books! We just had a discussion this week about what I would do if a blue dinosaur was outside my window.

cool! you know, most kids love dinos - our daughter, lillie, is no different. she loves to play dinos and fairies. i know - how do they mix? well, they seem to! and t-rex? he's quite tame, now. :) in fact, he's a vegetarian! thanks for letting us know about these fun books!

I just went to the Carngie Museum with my son and his class, but the dinosaur part was being refurbished. We didn't get to see the dinosaurs. I'm not sure when we will get back there, so the book would be great for us!!

I love the idea of mini books fitting inside the big book--sounds like a cool puzzle too!

My son will be 3 years old in January. He has been able to read since he turned 2 and has a definate love for reading and books. We try to get him at least 1-2 new books each month because we want him to continue his love for learning and reading. He has tons more books than toys because of this.

He has recently started showing an interest in dinosaurs. He has a few dinosaur plush toys, but no dinosaur books as of yet. He has learned about dinosaurs by watching some specials on the Discovery and History channels as well as a few episodes of Go Diego Go where they talked about dinosaurs. He likes to roar like a dinosaur and knows which one is a T-Rex and which one is a Stegasaurus. This would be a great book for him so we can continue teaching him about dinosaurs and inspiring him to have a love for learning and reading as he grows older.

My six-year-old son, Alex, would love this book(s) :-P !! It reminds me of the big elaborate pop-up book series which has mini-pop-up books on each page to give extra details. My son has the Knights and Dinosaurs versions of that series, but this one would work even better for our nightly reading time because we could read one of the mini-books each night. Alex looks forward to that time all day. He's also very into dinosaurs. One of his toy dinosaurs is out on the floor in his room right now, in fact! And of course I love the idea of him getting to learn something. He is generally bored in his kindergarten class right now because he learns more quickly than some of the other kids, but he gets very excited about new things. That's probably why he learns so quickly, actually. Thanks for the opportunity!

My son would love this book. He's 3 1/2, and he LOVES dinosaurs. He sometimes pretends that he is a T-Rex. Also, he has two dinosaurs that make noise, and my husband likes to pretend that they're eating both of my sons' toes. I'll have to look for the book.

I have 3 boys and ALL of them are interested dinosaurs. Is the love for dinosaurs just automatically programmed in little boys' brains?

My 11 year old was crazy about dinosaurs when he was around 5, so much that he just had to have his bedroom decor in a prehistoric style. Of course this decor has now been passed down to my 6 year old because he's now the one who adores the dinos.

Our littlest guy, who's 16 months old growls every time he sees one, so I have a strong feeling that he'll end up with the prehistoric bedroom decor too!

Aah boys & dinosaurs... you can't beat it!

Jessica - how funny. My six year old's name is Alex too!

Aww my five year old would go nutty over this!

He's got a couple other Dinosaur books right now and a small set of dinosaur figures. Recently he got a big T-Rex dinosaur play figure.

Out of four Halloweens TWO of those years he dressed as a Dinosaur/lizard. What can I say? He loves reptiles and dinosaurs!

Gideon is always eager to devour books and I'm equally as eager to nourish his mind and imagination with them. I would be honored (and I'm sure Gideon would too) if we were one of the lucky ten chosen.

Wow! That sounds so cool. My son is 8 and has always loved learning about Dinosaurs. We go to the library and check out cool books about them. He is always trying to figure out all the facts he can about them. He's been learning about them for some time now.

It's neat to learn about them with him and read together. There's been plenty of nights and days spent reading books about Dinosaurs.

I can't wait to see if we can get this collection so we can add it to our reading list.

Thanks so much for the chance to win such a neat book.

There is something about having a 6'6" dad that stimulates the ability of a four-year-old to imagine gigantic dinosaurs, particularly when Dad works from home as an award-winning cartoonist. Although our granddaughter can host an elegant 'tea party' with her dolls and stuffed animals, Daddy's influence is evident when one of her dinosaur figures growls and feasts on blueberry muffins or a jiggly 8"rubber lizard.

Dinosaurs are as fascinating to me today as they were when I was a kid, but not even I consider them the sole 'territory' of boys.:)

This is a great gift idea for any dinosaur fan.

My five-year-old son loves dinosaurs, and he treasures the dinosaur book that I got him at the library sale for 25 cents. It is from 1978, and it is quite faded, and a few of the pages are ripped, but to my son this does not matter, it is one of his favorite books. He loves to read about, where the dinosaurs used to live, and at the end of the book it gives a color map of where the different dinosaurs lived. My son always asks "Which dinosaur used to live, where grandpa lives?", and then we take a good look at the map to see, which dinosaurs lived in Northern Europe, where grandpa lives, and which ones lived in the Southern part of the U.S. where we live.

I really think it is amazing, how it is often the simplest things that makes our children happy, and it makes me so proud to see, how my son is able to treasure a book from the 70s.

Today, when we were walking home from my son's pre k class, we saw a bone in the grass, and while I was a bit grossed out, my son sure enough had a different take on it. He told me that it was a dinosaur that had left behind a baby dinosaur many many years ago, and now all that was left was this bone.

So, yes I definitely have a dinosaur fan at home, and this book would make a great gift this year.

My son is 6 and just LOVES dinosaurs! He is a special needs child (with a Sensory Processing Disorder), but he is extremely bright. He knows everything about dinosaurs and loves to dazzle his teachers (and everyone else) with his knowledge. For Christmas, Birthday, any time that we ask what he wants, we know that it will include something about dinosaurs. He started Kindergarten this year and he is at the top of his class for reading, but his favorite dinosaur books (and he's seen many) are the ones that have great pictures and lots of scientific facts. These books look wonderful! What a great idea! Thanks!

What a great prize this would be for any child wanting to know more about these majestic creatures. My daughter is interested in medicine not so much dinos, other then the movie Jurasic Park. lol But Good luck to the others.

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This is an awesome gift idea! I have 2 dinosaur lovers actually! My oldest is 7 almost 8! She is an amazing reader and loves reading books! She is not your typical little girl that reads books about girly things.. She loves bookes about horses and dinosaurs and turtles.. etc.. My other dinosaur lover is 3. Him and his sister have dinosuars that they play with and its reallly funny watching them! They have lots of dinosaurs! My youngest Blake likes to take a dinosaur and try to scare daddy and everyone with it.. My kids would all enjoy this great book.. in fact I am sure my husband who is 28 would enjoy reading this with the kids as he is interested in the history of things such as dinosaurs! Thanks And Merry Christmas!

My three sons would LOVE this book! They're always pretending to be dinasuars. They love anything that has to do with dinos and they love to read too. :)

My nephew would absolutely love this. He is a huge dinosaur fan. He has collected just about every dinosaur and his entire room is covered with them, he even has a volcano tent over his bed with a pterodactyl hanging from the ceiling. This would be a great gift since he has now learned to read.

What an excellent gift idea for children.

I have a son who is in Kindergarten and adores dinosaurs! Plus, my kids are all into learning about animals and nature, so this would be perfect for them. Thanks for offering this!

My 8 year old god son would love the books ! we build one of those 3-D models of a T-Rex ! that was so much fun he would love to read these books! Thankyou for being so giving !

By the age of 4 my son knew how to say "pachycephalosaurus", knew exactly what they looked like, and how tall they were compared to current day structures. He had memorized most of the dinosaurs shown in Walking with the Dinosaurs along with most of their essential facts. If someone mentioned a dinosaur, he would begin to tell you about his favorite, ask you about yours, and then compare the two. Most kids at that age would be happy with Barney the dinosaur, but mine was different. He's seen fossils and bones in no less than 7 different museums of natural history (see my images for some pics of dinosaur bones at the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia). Now, at the age of 12, he wants to be a paleontologist one day with his field of expertise being that of marine organisms. When I told him he was looking at a minimum of twelve years of college, he didn't flinch. It is something he truly enjoys and I hope he reaches his goal. I will do everything I can to help him get there. I hope that there are other kids whose moms leave comments to win them these books. It could sprout a life-long love that could become a career.

Rita, speak for yourself.

Great idea and offer.... My son is 10 and out of the dinosaur phase... now he's just into playing video games lol

As my oldest grandson was growing up, he was always fascinated with dinosaurs. He loved them so much that I made up a "dinosaur dance" that we could do together. After reading his most recent book on dinosaurs, we would start to dance. First, you squat down and turn your legs out like sumo wrestlers, then, you pull your arms close to you, so your arms stick out from your elbows up, and make your hands into claws like a T-Rex. Then, you move all about doing the dance, but make sure you don't knock anything over with your tail! Lastly, we would let out our magnificent dinosaur roar! My oldest grandson is now 9, and we don't do the dinosaur dance that much any more. But I will still be able to pass on the dinosaur dance, because my twin boy grandsons are 4 now! They like me to read to them almost as much as I enjoy doing it! These books would be perfect for us to dance to, after I show them how to do it!

While my grandson Gus was hospitalized undergoing CA treatment, everything related to dinosaurs, big ones, little plastic ones, and puzzles about dinosaurs were his only link to the outside world. He is now six years old, and has been clear for two years, but his facination with dinosaurs has not vanished. A beatiful book collection would add to his fascination, not to mention that it will give me the opportunity to share his interest by reading the books to him, while the book and Gus roar at the same time!

I have a 7 year old that has had problems with reading and he loves dinosaurs. Anything to get him interested in reading is helpful. This would be perfect.

Thanks for the book review and gift suggestion. I don't have children myself but I always give birthday and Christmas gifts to my best friend's boys, Sebastian (8) and Nickolas (6).

On my way home from work today I musing that I might search Gather for little boy gift ideas! I guess I just found it!

Thanks!!

Dino-Mite!
It's hard to imagine my dinosaur-loving grandson not wanting this book. So please please pick me. Your offer has touched the soul of my dinosaur loving little boy.

My eight year old loves Dinosours he collect the figures and no all about them.
It would be a gift he would treasure.

Great gift idea. Kids seem to be mesmerized by the giants that once roamed the earth. This book set would be ideal for boy or girl, in a variety of ages. My son loves the books like "How do Dinosaurs Clean Their Room". I took him to the Indianapolis Children's Museum and he absolutely gauked at the dino exhibit. I was a little taken aback myself as their newer exhibit is just beautiful. I would love to give this set to my kids. Reading is such an integal part of their life and it's book like this that seem to get them interested in it.

My son loves dinosaur and we have just started home schooling him, so I would love to have a copy of this book.

We read about dinosaurs in our National Geographic magazine, and watch documentaries on the Discovery and the National Geographic channels.

Unfortunately, I'm probably ineligible since I'm a Gather correspondent - but I will see about picking this up at the library or bookstore!

He is always coming up with questions about them I can't anwer.

My 13 year old used to like these types of books, but now likes the xbox and computer games. These books would make nice gifts, thanks for sharing.

As a child, I didn't think much about dinosaurs, but nowadays they are all the rage. And have been for probably twenty years! My seven year old still likes to read about them and play make-believe. Often I'll hear, Mom, today we're all stegosaurus.

My 7-year-old son is a reading monster, not unlike a dinosaur... He roars and stretches when he wakes in the morning, then immediately and voraciously he tears into whatever poor, unsuspecting book which happens to be on his bedside table. He's a fantastic reader, possessing comprehension skills many grades above his age -- let's just say I could turn him loose with Reader's Digest with no problem, save for that pesky little fact that most of it is completely inappropriate for a second grader -- and he has a solitary interest in non-fiction. He hungers for the facts. One of his favorite subjects is history, and he is aware of the mysterious and fascinating role dinosaurs have played in the history of our world.
As a mom with such a unique child on my hands, I am finding it increasingly difficult to put worthwhile informational books in his hands without exceeding his emotional comprehension level, which will remain a far cry from his reading level for quite some time. I have found that the fairly objective, non-emotional delivery system typical of most biographies and historical books is an ideal way to capture his interest without overwhelming (or corrupting!) his little mind.
I know my little reading reptile would LOVE Dinosaurium, and I would be confident (and grateful) letting him sink his teeth into it!

My six year old boy is in the Book It program at school, you know where they get a free Pizza Hut personal pan pizza each month they read their correct number of books. This is a little boy that is in his second year of kindergarten and this year really shows the want to learn......................

This would be a great chance for me and my son to review some books together. He enjoys looking at books and pretending that he is reading now. I would love to give him this set of books, as he does love to be read to on a daily basis.

It took some coaxing to get my grandson to step inside the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian last summer, especially when he heard the roar of the African elephants in the rotunda. Born three-months early, he's still a little leery of the unknown, even at age 4. But once he discovered the dinosaur hall and the bones of bygone creatures, his curiosity got the best of him, and soon he was pulling us along from one humongous creature to the next. Books can have the same affect on kids, leading them in surprising new directions and building their confidence with every word. I would love to give Julian his very own Dinosaurium.

My daughter would love these for her birthday in January -- she turns 5. She loves anything and everything dinosaurs. She knows many of the names, can tell you which are herbivores or carnivores -- she draws dinosaurs, makes up stories about dinosaurs, and she went out for Halloween this year as a dinosaur (she was so excited!). She has practiced digging fossils at our local museum and wants to be a palentologist when she grows up and work in a museum so she can arrange the bones and set up exhibits. She loves to read and we read every night together so the books would certainly be loved for more then one reason :-)

My 12 year old has this book and loves it - even my toddlers love to look at the pictures and carry around the little books inside this one big book - a great way to have fun learning about dinosaurs :)

My youngest daughter is still too young to understand, but I read a wide variety of books to her anyway. She likes me reading to her, and she loves all the pictures in the books - she points to them and laughs. I feel that reading to children (even babies) stimulates their minds and gets them interested in learning, which will help them throughout their lives.

This would make an excellent gift for my son and daughter to share. They are both obsessed with dinosaurs. We actually bought our son a set of dinosaurs for Christmas this year. Before we had even gotten them in the mail, my son found a set at the store and insisted that we buy them for him. He carried them through the store himself (he's only two) everywhere we went. My husband was so amused that he went ahead and bought them, knowing that we had already bought a set for Christmas. The dinosaurs were glow-in-the dark and my son slept with them at night for about a week. My daughter, who is four, has a large floor-size dinosaur puzzle that she works at least three times a week. We've even taught her the dinosaur names (pterodactyl, triceratops, etc.), and my son knows a few of them too. I think that's rather impressive for a 4 and 2 year old myself. So, yes, you could say my kids are dinosaur lovers. They are also book-lovers. They have their own bookcase, and I finally got a library card and started taking them to the library every two weeks or so instead of having to buy books ourselves. Much cheaper that way!

Cool, I don't think I ever grew out of my son's dinosar phase. I saw a T-Rex at the toy store last week that moves it's head and growls and told my hubby I wanted it for Christmas. I'm serious. I love dinosaurs. I guess at 23 my son is more interested in girls now, but give me the toys. Preferably the dinos and coloring books. I would love to read the books. Maybe someday I'll even have a grandchild to read them to. Until then, theu can stay on my book shelf.

My very soon to be two year old likes dinosaurs. This would be get!

My grandson who is 10 would love this. For a couple years he didnt like to read and didnt read well until he discovered there are interesting and cool things to read about.He started out reading Harry Potter,then the dragonology books,dinosaurs would be a great addition,especially since they are something that was real at one time.

this IS a fantastic gift idea! I have two boys so dinosaurs are a big part of our lives,.....that and sharks! LOL

These sound terrific. I know a little girl who would absolutely adore these books.

This would be perfect for my kindergarten class....they all love dinosaurs.

This is cool. It would be a perfect gift for my cousin. He was just born this year, but his nursery was all decked out in dinosaurs so it would be perfect for his mommy to read to him and eventually be able to read it himself!

I dont think that the kids are the only one with an interest in Dinosaurs. I find that both my husband and myself are interested in them. Our Daughters have always been interested also. Now as the grandkids are reading, they too love dinosaurs. I cant explain the longing for knowledge of these wonderful interesting creatures have on all our family but it has a tight hold on us. I would love to have this collection to start our grandkids off with answers to their ingrigue and questions. They would love this and it would be read by several generations and then passed down to the next. Thus keeping the longing for knowledge of dinosaurs alive and thriving for generations to come.

Thank you for a wonderful book series.I have two books:A Natural History of L.I.,N.y, on Amazon.com-and one on Gather-"Gross Production and Evolution" Just to add,there is so much new in science.The Dinosaur books is a great treasure.

What a neat book! I have two girls, so not too much dinosaur stuff around the house right now. My little one seems interested in them though (she's 4). Even my oldest has gotten into reading about different animals and things just to learn more about them. This book would definitely make a nice addition to their library. Thank you for the opportunity :)

This would be a great addition to my household as both of my kids love all things dinosaur. My 9 year old daughter has some trouble reading but when we get the right book she will do her best to READ it. My 4 year old son loves all things dinosaur. Right now he even has a temporary dino. tatoo. This book would be great for both of my children. Thanks for the opportunity to win one :)

It is for sure we all want to give the "Gift of Reading" to someone in our family. I do too. So I will put my littlest granddaughte out there, and hope I do well. She is on my homepage so I see her and her older sister daily. I have moved away from them, just a little over one hundred miles, but that is a zillion to a child. She often ask's her mom "Will you take me to my Grandma with the black dog? Do you still know where she lives?" She worries I am lost to them. How can you not love that?

We are a reading family, and always have been. My children grew up in the country, the nearest movie and shopping was twenty five miles away, so we read, and played outside a lot. And the study of dinosaurs is a big hit. My own children loved them, and Stephanie, who is three, is just now getting into them. As she loves to have "Daddy" read to her, (He loves this over playing Barbie or Store!, (Smile), this would be perfect for them. My son works sixty to seventy hours a week to give the girls and his wife all they can have. They have been together for about seventeen years. Michelle is thirteen going on twenty, and she is a "into" her privacy now, but Dad and Stephanie still spend some "Quality time," together , before bed, he is not ever too tired, and reading lets him sit down.

Stephanie loves purple and pink dinosaurs, and she has started to name them, knows quite a bit, and it has piqued her interest in the Earth, and "where "stuffs" go? I know it would be a family treasure, and I can see them all discussing it. I hope I have done well for them, and they and Stephanie have a chance, they like things they can all do together, and her Mom can have fun with her shopping for a new Dino and then reading about it. Thanks, and Merry Christmas. Ellen B

Thanks for the opportunity to win this book and for choosing me as one of the winners! It arrived today - and the timing could not have been better! I opened the envelope and my son saw the cover, "What is THAT!" I thought it might be young for him, but he was enthralled. He particularly loved the flip pages that shows two skeletons in motion as well as the mini book that contains facts on different dinosaurs. Thanks so much for sending it. You've made at least one child VERY happy indeed!

Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to win this book for my sons. It arrived on the 25th, and we put it under the Christmas tree, as we open presents on Christmas Eve.

My five-year-old son Roshane, exclaimed a big WOW, when he opened this present as the first one, and he was so excited. He loves the little books you can take out, and he even asked, if he could bring it to bed to read to himself last night.

Thank you so much DK Publishing, this is an excellent book.