Dinosaur Mountain

Digging into the Jurassic Age

Deborah Kogan Ray

Frances Foster Books

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Earl Douglass was a teenager when he first heard about the Bone Wars—the frenzied race between paleontologists to unearth and classify dinosaur fossils—and he remained fascinated with these prehistoric giants for the rest of his life. As a geologist and botanist working at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Douglass had a hunch that the vast untouched rock strata in northeastern Utah just may have been a haven for Jurassic fossil beds. In 1908, he set out by mule team to the Uinta Basin to dig and discover. Find me “something big,” Andrew Carnegie instructed.

Little did Carnegie know exactly how well Douglass would heed those words. Sixteen years and 350 tons of fossils later, Earl Douglass emerged as one of the most prolific and successful dinosaur hunters of his time.

Using entries directly from Douglass’s diary along with her own evocative storytelling and artwork, acclaimed author and illustrator Deborah Kogan Ray paints the life of this adventurous bone hunter in memorable detail.

Dinosaur Mountain is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year and a 2011 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book.

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Deborah Kogan Ray

Deborah Kogan Ray numerous books include Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer. She lives in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania.

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Dinosaur Mountain
Digging into the Jurassic Age
Deborah Kogan Ray
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NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books, Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Frances Foster Books
April 2010
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374317898
ISBN10: 0374317895
Picture Book Nonfiction
11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, 40 pages, Includes full-color illustrations throughout, maps, a glossary, an author's note, and a bibliography
Age Range: 8 and up
Grade Range: 3 and up
$16.99
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