Re: your first paleon book was

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Mine was the Little Golden Book of Dinosaurs (late-70's or earliest 
'80s edition).  My parents gave in to my request to read it to me 
(repeatedly...apparently till they pretty much couldn't stand it) as 
well as a remarkably tolerant and now sadly deceased friend of our 
family who treated us as grandchildren.

I  remember being amazed at how vividly life-like the illustrations 
where (in retrospect somewhat amusing), and spent countess hours 
looking at them wondering how scientist-magicians could figure out how 
these things looked so long after they died.

I guess I never really got over that fascination.

Scott


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Wyoming Dinosaur Center
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jane P Davidson <jdhexen@unr.edu>
To: tholtz@umd.edu; hammeris1@bellsouth.net; dinosaur@usc.edu
Sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 9:26 am
Subject: your first paleon book was: well darn



Actually, I would be interested to hear from folks about what their 
first book
on paleontology, for children or not, was.  As a matter of a little 
research, if
you would like to share with me, you can write off list if you want.  
Mine was
R.C. Andrews'  All About Dinosaurs,   followed soon by C. L. Fenton's 
Life Long
Ago.

Jane D



Dr. Jane P. Davidson
Professor of History of Art
University of Nevada, Reno
89557  USA

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From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu on behalf of Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Sent: Tue 3/25/2008 5:32 AM
To: hammeris1@bellsouth.net; dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: RE: well darn



> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]
> On Behalf Of hammeris1@bellsouth.net
>
> So the polar allosaur goes by the way of the "How & Why
> Wonder Book of Dinosaurs" from the Sixties.  I'm shattered.
The How & Why Wonderbook of Dinosaurs was my first ever dinosaur book. 
My
mom & grandma read to me from it.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Email: tholtz@umd.edu   Phone: 301-405-4084
Office: Centreville 1216
Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology
Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland
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