This Giant Golden Book of Dinosaurs introduces us to dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles, with engagingly descriptive text, imagination. Rudolph Zallinger's truly classic, really wonderful, memorable full-color pictures of dinosaurs and other reptilians of the time show them going about their business in the deserts, junglelands, plains and valleys of their lost world.

A good deal of the information in this original 1966 edition is now outdated due to subsequent discoveries about Mesozoic Earth, but regardless, Jane Werner Watson wrote an intelligent book for curious, intelligent and literate eight-year-old children raised in an era of scientific inquiry and discovery, for whom words like "Carboniferous," "Theropod," and "Saurischian" were not beyond comprehension.