tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post3732209286073816440..comments2023-10-29T06:50:22.166-04:00Comments on Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs: Vintage Dinosaur Art: The How and Why Wonder Book of DinosaursUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-77182613764822809992017-10-17T17:00:20.274-04:002017-10-17T17:00:20.274-04:00A few years late to the party, but I had a similar...A few years late to the party, but I had a similar reaction. It was just so bizarre that even as a 12-year-old kid I thought, "That can't be right. That can't be how it really looked." That's even taking into consideration that 12-year-olds were a lot "younger" and more naive when I was one than they are these days. :-)johnbgood52https://www.blogger.com/profile/11945699009613316296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-37895360299409303082017-08-17T15:14:44.508-04:002017-08-17T15:14:44.508-04:00I remember THWWBD well and it was recently brought...I remember THWWBD well and it was recently brought back to mind by a visit to Dinosaur NM.<br />Here is my account of our first visit there:<br />http://epicroadtrips.us/2017/wy_ut_co/ut/index1.php#dino<br /><br />Lots of fun.<br />WV-MikeWVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656937581764834863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-84789478120085215072017-04-16T00:42:44.369-04:002017-04-16T00:42:44.369-04:00My favorite book from childhood. I carried it with...My favorite book from childhood. I carried it with me on family trips, show and tell day at school, just about everywhere that I thought it would remain safe. Then, in third grade I brought it in to school to show my teacher as we were studying dinosaurs. It was waiting on her desk when another student called her a series of words most of us had never uttered or even knew. She grabbed my dinosaur book off her desk and began banging it on her desk to get his attention. I watched, horrified as she switched banging on the desk top to the desk corner instead; the corner of the desk pierced through the entire book and tore the binding as well. I ran up and grabbed my book, and sat sobbing and crying the rest of the day. I stopped sharing treasured things with that teacher that day.<br /> <br />It took 20 years before I found another copy. It remains one of my favorite books despite the dated illustrations. I know exactly where it is on my shelves and look at it once or twice a year.Kevin Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05936944039269407165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-55294910138842833352017-04-15T23:28:26.425-04:002017-04-15T23:28:26.425-04:00Wonderful. Just wonderful. I still have my dog ear...Wonderful. Just wonderful. I still have my dog eared old copy with the cover torn off and crayon all over the pages. I'm 56 years old and that copy must be 50. I picked up a better preserved one in a second hand bookstore. Ah, memories...John Burrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02311424571055776336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-73020925880080709462016-04-25T03:44:42.920-04:002016-04-25T03:44:42.920-04:00My first dino book too, probably inherited from a ...My first dino book too, probably inherited from a sibling, since it has my four-year-old scribbles on it. I adored this book, it got me into dinosaurs too. The Iguanodon has an almost equine face - I always loved that, and the graceful pose. elledehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18381089476776888330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-70698875965143201502016-03-17T11:14:36.807-04:002016-03-17T11:14:36.807-04:00I have a copy of this wonderful book, I have alway...I have a copy of this wonderful book, I have always had a great fascination with Dinosaurs, I also have the old 1960's book by Zdenek Burian, a ahrdback cover, green with an inlaid Stegosaurus on the cover in brown stencil, however, back to the hwwbd, I remember going on a school trip to Manchester museum, I must have been about eight at the time, and the teacher bought this book in the museum shop, I mithered to borrow it, the pictures of the T-Rex were as a young enthralled boy imagined the animal to be, as were all the other images, I didn't think Brontosaurus was particularly fat, as I believed how else would he look being known as the thunder lizard, I was transported into the world of the dinosaurs, to this day I dip into this book through a sense of nostalgia to the lost wonderment of that eight year old boy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02043162397075101492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-17166013046931302962015-05-03T09:04:42.105-04:002015-05-03T09:04:42.105-04:00This was my first and best-loved dino book. I was ...This was my first and best-loved dino book. I was devastated when at the age of 5 I leant it to the school where my dad taught only to have it nicked! Now thanks to Ebay I can get another copy.<br />DavidAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09845325653881020480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-88663823759878949162014-04-10T22:31:59.375-04:002014-04-10T22:31:59.375-04:00OMG, I remember having this book. Got to find one ...OMG, I remember having this book. Got to find one on e-bay NOW!Joe L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16877008845465483454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-33607952844387432182014-03-07T01:10:11.070-05:002014-03-07T01:10:11.070-05:00THWWBD was also my first dinosaur book, followed b...THWWBD was also my first dinosaur book, followed by "Dinosaurs of the Earth". One of the copies in my collection has "copyright 1960" and "special material copyright 1960", so I'm wondering if it was published prior to 1965. i was always disappointed that the Pyro kits did not resemble the illustrations and then "Lo and behold!" they appear on the cover of the 1981 reprint.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08595899786757330626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-29554076937814996422014-01-12T23:35:17.221-05:002014-01-12T23:35:17.221-05:00Loved this book. thanks for sharing :DLoved this book. thanks for sharing :DWHITEHAWKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07858672090718857006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-32585043294315734472013-04-08T06:35:45.906-04:002013-04-08T06:35:45.906-04:00The funny thing is that, after 40 years, it took t...The funny thing is that, after 40 years, it took this article to point out just how impossibly wrong these drawings were. I always thought that they were just plain "awesome". So in a sense, they really are like "pre-Rennaissance" art.TomWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11812240844228967971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-51921368889515948692013-04-07T10:24:04.975-04:002013-04-07T10:24:04.975-04:00I had a much treasured and well-thumbed copy of th...I had a much treasured and well-thumbed copy of this book as a child. In fact, I had several. Being an artistic sort I used colored pencils and crayons to color the black and white illustrations in one of my copies. A while back I found a used copy in rather excellent condition at a Half Price Books near me. Of course, my eyes lit up like a kid's on Christmas and clutched the treasure to my chest greedily until I was out of the store and it was mine (all mine) for good. Curiously, that edition is copyrighted 1960 so it appears to have been around a bit earlier than you thought. Along with The Big Golden Book Of Dinosaurs, RC Andrews' All ABout Dinosaurs, The Album Of Dinosaurs (illustrated by Rod Ruth) and a few others, the HAWWBOD was one of the foundational documents of my childhood dinosaur library.John Burrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02311424571055776336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-87027196299560054932013-04-06T23:04:07.972-04:002013-04-06T23:04:07.972-04:00My copy of this book disappeared about 35 years ag...My copy of this book disappeared about 35 years ago. This really takes me back.jckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11451191061242331795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-26511118835638677192013-04-03T09:12:35.549-04:002013-04-03T09:12:35.549-04:00For me it was the second dinosaur book, although i...For me it was the second dinosaur book, although in Dutch translation (late 1960s ed.). <br /><br />Could anyone help me get a title of my first dino book? This was a presumably 1960ish soft-cover comic that mainly treated the history of dinosaur discovery, with lots of attention for Mantell, Cuvier, Owen et al. Also, it featured grey-skinned Neandertals that you could easily see were predestined for extermination by the god-like Cro-Magnons (think Morlocks vs. Eloi in The Time Machine). <br />Iljahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12096376093633074580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-51812879070686223162013-04-03T07:38:28.838-04:002013-04-03T07:38:28.838-04:00Haha, very true about the Iguanodon. It might not ...Haha, very true about the Iguanodon. It might not be as overly lizardy as many restorations of the period, but damn, it has a fat arse.<br /><br />Extra toe? I don't know what you mean...tralala...Marc Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894846069567096349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-11395301105870605472013-04-03T04:32:59.517-04:002013-04-03T04:32:59.517-04:00Thankyou thankyou, Marc, for reviewing this! Count...Thankyou thankyou, Marc, for reviewing this! Count me as yet another for whom this was the first dino book owned (1974 ed.), along with Prehistoric Mammals.<br /><br />That green <i>Allosaurus</i> certainly is a freak. I can only assume that it is toppling over toward the water and that it is the perspective that makes its legs appear so much more robust than its skinny chest.<br /><br />However, the <i>Iguanodon</i> prob needed those massive legs to be able to drag around that huge fat tail. It's so thick that the base is hidden behind the ankle, making it look about the same size around as the torso.<br /><br />And let's just pretend we haven't noticed that <i>T. rex</i> has sprouted an extra toe in the last pic.Mark Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05197384873600545231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-20302714684320845422013-04-02T14:30:52.618-04:002013-04-02T14:30:52.618-04:00I had this one. The long legged Allosaurus freake...I had this one. The long legged Allosaurus freaked me out. He kind of looks like an alien.Kaveh Maguirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415126992728047743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-68857761476605580042013-04-02T13:52:40.761-04:002013-04-02T13:52:40.761-04:00LOVED this book as a kid. One of my first along w...LOVED this book as a kid. One of my first along with "The Little Big Dinosaur" and "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs." This book, however, was always a bit spooky - something about the illustrations. Very cool! I have 3 copies of it! Who am I kidding? - STILL love this book.<br /><br />Shannon Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17831516230800395814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-31440531751545339872013-04-02T07:44:20.622-04:002013-04-02T07:44:20.622-04:00I had a feeling that something like that might hav...I had a feeling that something like that might have happened. Thanks for pointing it out.Marc Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894846069567096349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-29285696701637138942013-04-02T06:59:01.193-04:002013-04-02T06:59:01.193-04:00Brachauchenius and Hoplopteryx appear because that...Brachauchenius and Hoplopteryx appear because that illustration is a rip on Zallinger's classic Kansas seaway scene (from "The Pageant of Life" in LIFE magazine), which features those animals. That illustration "inspired", to be charitable, a great number of marine reptile pics in kids' books in the 60s and 70s.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04651672761957692518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-81800879042515882582013-04-02T06:40:56.394-04:002013-04-02T06:40:56.394-04:00I didn't mention it in the SV-POW!, but I thin...I didn't mention it in the SV-POW!, but I think was probably my first dinosaur book, too. It's amazing how many people this seems to be true of, and (indirectly) how many careers this terrible, terrible book launched. I love it!Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-86204125207952228102013-04-02T06:07:52.562-04:002013-04-02T06:07:52.562-04:00The Brachauchenius looks surprisingly nimble and m...The Brachauchenius looks surprisingly nimble and modern - a green "double penguin!"C. M. Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10025522023760918012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-65179745910309032512013-04-02T05:50:44.301-04:002013-04-02T05:50:44.301-04:00I had this too! Correction: I still have this! And...I had this too! Correction: I still have this! And yes, I believe it was my first dinosaur book too, received around 1965-1966.<br /><br />The large format of the book, plus several large illustrations in which the dinosaurs seemed to barely fit withing the page borders, made them seem especially huge and monstrous. It was awesome, for its time.<br /><br />I also had the How and Why Wonder Book of Prehistoric Mammals, which was pretty cool also. I still have that one too (although it's a little wavy from the day I left it out in the rain -- stupid kid! -- but miraculously suffered to other damage).Stevo Darklyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17619713705165612080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-75247814482214523712013-04-02T05:49:27.986-04:002013-04-02T05:49:27.986-04:00Oh, forgot to mention: The illustrations in my ger...Oh, forgot to mention: The illustrations in my german book are different from the ones in your original post. They really are weak. Although the cover isn't _too_ bad: http://www.booklooker.de/images/cover/user/0358/8723/Ym4wNDQy.jpgAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00874845781327394592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-51086776248699247492013-04-02T05:45:05.491-04:002013-04-02T05:45:05.491-04:00I just stumbled across the German translation, &qu...I just stumbled across the German translation, "Was ist was? Dinosaurier" at my parents house - it might have been my first dinosaur book, too. I found my older brother's dino-sketches in it so it must have drawn (pun intended) him to making his own "paloeart". But actually it is really weak in its illustration and I am also not convinced about the prose writing. Maybe the translation didn't do it any good. Anyhow, it is a 1980 re-edition, which adds to the "wrongness" by being seriously outdated.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00874845781327394592noreply@blogger.com