Another Ladybird book ! I have a particular affinity for Ladybird's numerous and varied dainty hardback books, as I had a collection of ...

While preparing this week's Vintage Dinosaur Art post, I was struck by how the illustrations were reminiscent of those in a certain othe...

I am still working away at the prehistoric alphabet book I teased a while back . With most of the animals illustrated, I'm working on ba...

Bipedal Apatosaurus . Sepia ink, sepia powder, coloured pencils, and gouache on recycled paper 278 x 190mm. Inspired by Mike Taylor'...

In our last look at the Album of Dinosaurs , we established that it was a beautifully illustrated book, thoroughly out-of-date scientifical...

Not every kids' dinosaur book of the early 1970s featured lumpen and entirely static mounds of flesh dotted around belching volcanoes. A...

Let's face it, the majority of kids' dinosaur books around at any particular time can be pretty hard to tell apart. As has been disc...

Dr. Adam Stuart Smith is back with another review, this time covering Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular . Dr. Smith is a paleon...

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis should be well-known to long-time readers of this blog. It really is a standout as a science out...

Round-up time, and I've decided to resurrect the old format, which I hope will please everyone. News Sincere condolences to the frien...