Ankylosaur attack!

When I was a kid, I was so into dinosaurs that I wanted to be a paleontologist. Eventually, astronomy won out, but it was touch-and-go there for a while (my compromise: study giant impacts that wiped out the dinosaurs). When I was that age, my dad used to make tape recordings and send them to relatives instead of written letters, so that family members could hear the voices of the kids. I remember quite specifically one day picking a description about the ankylosaur for my part of the "letter". I talked about its clubbed tail, and how it used that weapon to fend off ravenous carnivores. So back when I was 5 I would've loved to have had a book like my friend Daniel Loxton's new work, Ankylosaur Attack. It's a great, lavishly-illustrated hardcover for kids about the day in the life of a young dinosaur: feeding, watching pterosaurs, meeting ...