Sunday, November 23, 2025

Weirdosaurus: Prehistory's Most Peculiar Dinosaurs written and illustrated by Philip Bunting - ADVISABLE

Weirdosaurus: Prehistory's Most Peculiar Dinosaurs written and illustrated by Philip Bunting. PICTURE BOOK. Happy Yak (Quarto Publishing Group), 2025. $20. 9780711295827

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL (4-6) - ADVISABLE

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

Check out over 80 different weird dinosaurs from the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods with this detailed and hilarious guide, complete with all the facts and stats that your little dinosaur loving heart could desire.

My eye was caught by the colorful book cover, but I was pleased to learn lots of different things about dinosaurs that I never knew before. Your younger readers might struggle with the Latin names, but the accompanying translation and pronunciation guide will help them out. It’s mostly a reference book with witty commentary from the author, so it will be really appealing to those students who are already interested in dinosaurs, but the illustrations will also draw in those who check it out in passing.

Kiera, ELA teacher, #bookswithbeddes 

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