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Where it all began for Paleoncologist
This is my first dinosaur book, copyright 1974. I think I was 6 when I got it new.
It was called a "step up book." My parents subscribed to a Dr Suess book club (family lore says I taught myself to read with all the Dr Suess classics) and then I advanced to picking out my own books. I am pretty sure I chose it myself.
I've probably read it over 100 times (It is not long).
Still for sale on Amazon, but I hope it has been updated.
It is part of a series of "XXX did the strangest things" by Leonora and Arthur Hornblow, but the prehistoric monsters was my favorite.
It remains on a prominent site on my bookshelf because it simultaneously marks where my love for dinosaurs, reading, learning, and science took off, and has really never slowed down. Although my interests have often changed over the years
I went on to read essentially every dinosaur book in the young adult section of the Brooklyn public library. I tried to read the adult books, but they were a bit boring.
Not long after I finished all the dinosaur books I wanted to read, I discovered Tolkien, CS Lewis, Frank Baum (All the Oz books, not just the Wizard) and the whole sci-fi / fantasy genre, which I began to enjoy a bit more than boring adult paleontology books.
Next pictured, the cover and first page of the dinosaur book I "wrote" myself at the ripe old age of 7 or 8, when I fancied myself a young paleontologist. I shamelessly plagiarized from the attached book, all typed on my Mom's manual typewriter, which should be painfully obvious.
It is all of ten pages, including the Table of Contents.
It has never been published, and has only been read by my immediate family (until now) and they've probably forgotten about it.
If anyone would like to publish it, let me know.
I will need an editor
This is my first dinosaur book, copyright 1974. I think I was 6 when I got it new.
It was called a "step up book." My parents subscribed to a Dr Suess book club (family lore says I taught myself to read with all the Dr Suess classics) and then I advanced to picking out my own books. I am pretty sure I chose it myself.
I've probably read it over 100 times (It is not long).
Still for sale on Amazon, but I hope it has been updated.
It is part of a series of "XXX did the strangest things" by Leonora and Arthur Hornblow, but the prehistoric monsters was my favorite.
It remains on a prominent site on my bookshelf because it simultaneously marks where my love for dinosaurs, reading, learning, and science took off, and has really never slowed down. Although my interests have often changed over the years
I went on to read essentially every dinosaur book in the young adult section of the Brooklyn public library. I tried to read the adult books, but they were a bit boring.
Not long after I finished all the dinosaur books I wanted to read, I discovered Tolkien, CS Lewis, Frank Baum (All the Oz books, not just the Wizard) and the whole sci-fi / fantasy genre, which I began to enjoy a bit more than boring adult paleontology books.
Next pictured, the cover and first page of the dinosaur book I "wrote" myself at the ripe old age of 7 or 8, when I fancied myself a young paleontologist. I shamelessly plagiarized from the attached book, all typed on my Mom's manual typewriter, which should be painfully obvious.
It is all of ten pages, including the Table of Contents.
It has never been published, and has only been read by my immediate family (until now) and they've probably forgotten about it.
If anyone would like to publish it, let me know.
I will need an editor
