THE NEW DINOSAURS (and other books)

[Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47@mindspring.com>]

At 07:50 PM 11/7/00 -0600, Jeffrey Martz wrote:
> I have just received my copy of William Stout and William Service's 
> slightly revamped edition of his 1981 masterpeice THE DINOSAURS (now 
> entitled THE NEW DINOSAURS).  The back cover describes it as "the book 
> that started the renaissance in dinosaur books"; I have no idea if this is 
> true or not...

I would have thought that the book to start the "renaissance" was Adrian 
Desmond's
_The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs_.  But I may be biased, as this was one of the first
dinosaur books I owned as a kid.

> ... but I can at least describe the effect this book had on me back when I 
> received a copy for Christmas when I was six years old back in 1981.

Thanks for sharing your memories.  I liked this book as a kid, and I look 
forward to
seeing the new version.

Has anyone else seen another new book called _In the Presence of Dinosaurs_
by John Colagrande?  I haven't actually read it yet, but the paintings are 
beautiful,
depicting dinosaurs as majestic, even handsome creatures, not dark monsters 
out
of Steven Speilburg's nightmares.

Will there ever be a revision of Glut's _The New Dinosaur Dictionary_
(which is pretty *old* now)??



                                                -- Dave