LeVar goes on in the video to explore the fascination of dinosaurs that lived and then disappeared millions of years ago. Humor is interspersed in interviews with a ranger and a paleontologist who take LeVar on a fossil tour of Dinosaur National Monument.

Review books

Feature Book:

Digging up Dinosaurs

This book introduces readers to many types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossils.

Author: Aliki
Illustrator: Aliki
Publisher: Harper Collins

Dinosaurs! A Drawing Book

Presents instructions for drawing a variety of dinosaurs.

Author: Michael Emberley
Illustrator: Michael Emberley
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.

If You Are A Hunter of Fossils

A fossil hunter looking for signs of an ancient sea in the rocks of a western Texas mountain describes how the area must have looked millions of years ago.

Author: Byrd Baylor
Illustrator: Peter Parnall
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Dinosaur Time

Tells about eleven different dinosaurs – how to say their names, how big they were, what they ate, and other facts about the way they lived.

Author: Peggy Parish
Illustrator: Arnold Lobel
Publisher: Harper Collins