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Dino-mite Nonfiction Books to Teach About Dinosaurs

Use these nonfiction titles to teach your students about prehistoric times and the larger-than-life creatures who roamed the planet.

By Scholastic Editors
September 6, 2024

Keeping your classroom library filled with books on high-interest topics is a great way to spark a love of reading in your students and enhance your lessons.

These nonfiction titles are a dinosaur lover's dream come true! Loaded with eye-popping illustrations and fascinating facts, young readers will love taking a big bite out of any one of these dino-focused books. They're also perfect for teaching about fossils, prehistoric times, and extinction.

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Travel back in time and see the world through a dinosaur's eyes.

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10 Fascinating Facts About Dinosaurs

Grades Pre-K - 2
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Did you know that dinosaurs ruled the earth for 165 million years? Or that a huge meteorite or comet ended their reign? Those are just some of the fascinating tidbits kids will discover in 10 Fascinating Facts About Dinosaurs.

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Young readers can learn simple facts about dinosaurs in this book. Find out which dinosaurs were the smallest, the tallest, the strongest, and many other facts. This nonfiction book has rhyming text and realistic colorful illustrations of these extinct creatures.

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Be An Expert!™: Dinosaurs

Grades K - 2
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Now kids can feel like real pros with this exciting nonfiction series for beginning readers. Kids will be hooked on the thrilling real-world topics and big, bright photos.

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Fly Guy Presents: Dinosaurs

Grades 1 - 2
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Fly Guy and Buzz are ready for their next field trip! This time they're headed to a natural history museum to learn all about dinosaurs.

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Realistically detailed illustrations and National Geographic's visually stunning photos take kids on a prehistoric tour with real-life paleontologists!

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The classroom is decorated as Dinosaur Land, but Ms. Frizzle, inspired by an archeological dig, craves a more authentic experience. So the Magic School Bus turns into a time machine and transports the class back millions of years to an adventure where they learn about dinosaurs, their habitats and diets, and even a Maiasaura nesting ground.

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Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs!

Grades 2 - 4
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This lively book about the perennially popular subject of dinosaurs offers fascinating insight into how certain theories were formed, and then how those theories were proved or disproved.

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Jurassic World: Dinosaur Rivals!

Grades 1 - 5
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This unique novelty book includes 48 split pages, dinosaur stats, and a whole lot of prehistoric facts! Raptor vs. T. Rex? Anklosaurus vs. Stygimoloch? Indominous vs. Carnotaurus? Is speed more important than stealth? Hidden strengths and weaknesses may just give a surprising dinosaur the upper hand. Who will win the ultimate showdown?

She is massive. She is astounding. She is the most complete T. rex skeleton known to man. Her name is SUE, and she is, without a doubt, the archaeological find of this century. Unearthed on a routine dig one hot summer day in 1990, Dinosaur SUE has captured imaginations the world over. Now the complete account of her incredible tale is brought together for young readers.

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Check out how these amazing, real-life creatures match up. Who's the strongest, fastest, biggest, and baddest-in a fight to the finish, who would win?

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Scholastic Discover More™: Dinosaurs

Grades 3 - 5
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Packed with new digital images and facts from "in the field" paleontologists, this book takes a stunning look at the different kinds of dinosaurs, when they lived, and what they were like.

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Part of the wildly popular series, this book about dinosaurs is packed with information and presented in an accessible and entertaining way.

The theropod group of dinosaurs saw the biggest, fiercest predators that ever walked the Earth-and also some of the smallest, which were nevertheless incredibly deadly for their size. Hundreds of kinds of these killers existed through the Age of Dinosaurs, from about 230 to 66 million years ago. In this book, readers can learn all about the world in which these predators lived, their physical characteristics, and how they hunted and survived.

Millions of years ago, the oceans teemed with creatures that were every bit as fascinating and ferocious as the dinosaurs that ruled the land. This book explores how these awesome creatures lived, how they hunted, and how we know about them today.