Dino Fest

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Dino Fest is BACK! 🦖🎉 Join us on March 15, 2025 from 12–4 p.m. at Grand Prairie's EpicCentral for an extROARdinary adventure! Join us for animatronic dinosaurs and fun dino-activities. Tell a friend!

Updated February 19, 2025
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Barnum's bones : how Barnum Brown discovered the most famous dinosaur in the world
Fern, Tracey E.
Paper Book
Barnum Brown's (1873-1963) parents named him after the circus icon P.T. Barnum, hoping that he would do something extraordinary--and he did! As a paleontologist for the American Museum of Natural History, he discovered the first documented skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as most of the...
Carnotaurus
Hansen, Grace
Paper Book
This title takes you millions of years back in time to meet Carnotaurus, a giant meat-eating dinosaur. Complete with computer generated images, fossil finds, and a fossil map! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division...
How fast did T. rex run? : unsolved questions from the frontiers of dinosaur science
Hone, David
Paper Book
The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of dinosaurs In just the past twenty years, we have learned more about dinosaurs than we did in the previous two centuries. This book describes the extraordinary advances in palaeontology that are beginning to...
How tall was a T. Rex?
Limentani, Alison
Paper Book
Explore everyone's favorite dinosaur in this graphically striking and innovative picture book from an extraordinary new talent.   Everyone's fascinated by T.rex and wants to know what this big, fearsome creature was really like. ...
The last days of the dinosaurs : an asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world
Black, Riley
Paper Book
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writing." --Publishers Weekly, starred review In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the...
Lone Star dinosaurs
Jacobs, Louis L.
Paper Book
Dinosaurs make science exciting. They show us how the earth has changed over eons. Our current period of geologic time, the Cenozoic era, has lasted a mere 66 million years -- nearly 100 million years shorter than the Mesozoic reign of the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are as much a part of Texas history as...
The monster's bones : the discovery of T. rex and how it shook our world
Randall, David K.
Paper Book
From the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: socialite Henry Fairfield Osborn and intrepid fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils,...
T. Rex : hunter or scavenger?
Holtz, Thomas R.
Paper Book
Jurassic World is the long-awaited next installment of the groundbreaking Jurassic Park series. T. rex's, velociraptors, triceratops--as well as some all-new dinosaurs--will roar across the screen in this epic action-adventure directed by Colin Trevorrow starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas...
Triceratops
Sabelko, Rebecca
Paper Book
In the middle of a quiet forest, a triceratops holds it ground against a ferocious T. rex. Who will come out on top? As the T. rex draws closer, the triceratops flashes its wide frill and three sharp horns. Victory! The triceratops had many predators. It used its tough body to scare off enemies....
The tyrannosaur chronicles : the biology of the tyrant dinosaurs
Hone, David W. E.
Paper Book
'Gripping and wonderfully informative' Tom Holland, New StatesmanAdored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, Triceratops or...
Tyrannosaurus!
Feldman, Thea
Paper Book
Kingfisher Readers L1: Tyrannosaurus by Thea Feldman LEVEL 1: BEGINNING TO READ Extent: 32pp, 10 to 20 words per page Text at level 1 consists of short and simple sentences, high-interest information, easy vocabulary with a high degree of phonic regularity and lots of repetition...

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