Sara's Reviews > My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs

The library had quite a few copies of this book on display, so I picked one up. When I was younger one of my biggest fears was that a giant T-Rex would come stomping over the mountains, smashing the cities to bits, and then end up in my yard intending me for a snack.

I haven't kept up too much with what is going on in the dinosaur world lately. I have vague memories of raptors in Jurassic Park (I thought - are they new?). I remember when Brontosaurus was no longer a dinosaur. And somewhere along the way, I heard that dinosaurs had feathers.

I was hoping that this book would catch me up to date on recent dinosaur findings and new trends of thought. It did do that, but I had a hard time following the narration because this is basically a book of musings about dinosaurs as the author travels the country going to different sites.

I need a timeline somewhere. I can't remember from being a kid exactly when the Jurassic period occurred. I'm hazy on what Mesozoic means. This books assumes you know a lot of that and he's basically just bringing you up to speed on a few new points. I ended up a bit confused, skipping around from dinosaur to dinosaur, time period to time period. I need to find another book now, one that goes from point A to point B to point C. And one with bigger illustrations I can actually see.