I thought that this was an absolutely fantastic book to read!

The illustrations and images chosen were great and I loved the mix of facts that the book had.

My five year old daughter is dinosaur mad, and whilst the book is a little too old for her in places we read it together and she still really enjoyed it

As an adult and found it really interesting and I think that the DK books are some of the best available and this one was no different. It was a great way of learning as it was fun too

It is 5 stars from me for this one – very highly recommended!

A great book for children (and adults!) who want to find out more about dinosaurs and where they lived. Attractive illustrations are well balanced with informative text.

This bulky, fact-heavy encyclopaedia looks at dinosaurs, not through their evolution, family tree and timeline, and not on a type-by-type basis. Neither does it look at them in the order we discovered them. No, it plants them as firmly as it can on to the world and lets us see them all where they once were. Now, this is a bit awkward when it comes to the shifting continents – so four-layered maps do what they can to show which bit of Pangaea is what now, and where the critters called home both then and now. Often I found myself too puzzled as to where we were looking, though. Using what is very much a CGI aesthetic, each double-page spread has its own beastie, with the usual – pronunciation guide, size in relation to anonymous human, etc – but with much less of the splash image. Instead three visuals per monster show the relevant information – a close-up of the head and neck (often a sort of last-thing-you'll-see-before-it-beheads-you kind of gape), a full profile, and the map of the terrain back then.

Such a geographical way of splitting the book actually makes it quite easy for once to see dinosaurs in relation to each other – especially when, say, many were almost simultaneously sharing the space just east of the Rockies when a giant prehistoric sea disappeared. OK, we lose the detail of the huge gaps between, for instance, coelophysis and stegosaurus. But I guess what the book does, and what it clearly wants to do, is to give you a sense of these having been walking on the very ground beneath our feet. In looking at every continent one by one, and showing us what would have once roamed here, swum there, or flown above Romania we get a feel for the prehistory of our homes, much more than the purchasing power of a Victorian museum might allow. (It also makes us aware that velociraptors and other Jurassic Park critters would never have met.) Maps of the modern continents pointing out known fossil hotbeds are indications of where to go to join in with mankind's learning of these times, and 'bringing it all home' is very much the intent. Which is what you should do with this volume, which manages to make you wonder why other books haven't always been structured this way.

As someone who always loved dinosaurs and never quite grew out of that stage, I'm always looking for more dino related books to read and this one didn't disappoint. This goes through Earth and the countries and tells you all about the dinosaurs that lived there and what the world looked like back then, this provides an interesting insight into what the world looked like when dinosaurs ruled the world

If you have ever loved dinosaurs or know someone who does, this book is for you

I received this E-ARC on Netgalley in return for an honest review

What a great book!
Packed full on the history of dinosaurs and how they came about, all the different types of dinosaurs there are and what they eat, along with lots of other interesting facts.
Bit too grown up for my dinosaur crazy son, but he loved looking at all the illustrations and I know this book will be read over and over again once he is a little older..