![]() ![]() It's a large, heavily illustrated catalogue of over 400 reconstructed skeletons, accompanied throughout with life restorations and brief chunks of text that present data on the world's Mesozoic dinosaur species. Entering the Hall of Dinosaurs today makes the little hairs on the back of my neck stand up. The threshold to that great room brings to mind that day so many decades ago. The Hall of Dinosaurs is exciting for another more contemporary reason - that the story of dinosaurs isn't finished. It is, in fact, a more compelling story than the one I knew as a boy. Paul's most recent book-the 2010 The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs-is, simply put, the ultimate Greg Paul book. ![]() I loved the All About books, but this was the best. The memory remains vivid because it was this book that ignited a life-long fascination with dinosaurs and because it was followed the next day by an excursion to the Museum of Natural History. It would be my first visit to the Museum and one of the very few days I ever spent alone with my father. ![]() When I was a child my father would occasionally come home on Friday nights with small presents for my sister and me. Mine was most often a new View-Master slide or a book. Since my parents wanted me to be a good reader they bought lots of books, but the one I most remember was the slim hard covered All About Dinosaurs. ![]()
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