Planet Dinosaur: The Next Generation of Killer Giants Hardcover – January 19, 2012

My 5 year old son is a Dino fan. He enjoy watching the BBC documentary Planet dinosaur, and I am happy to find out there is a companion book. Although he can't read a lot now, he enjoy just looking at the pictures, and ask me to read it out when he was really interested into some pages. The knowledge is reinforced through different media. I recommend both the documentary and the book to dinosaur fans. I was amazed by the great graphics and amount of details in the documentary. The book offers new depth and is interesting to read too.

Like most of the other reviewers, I liked this book. It is a companion piece to an excellent BBC T.V. series narrated by John Hurt. This work focuses on more recent (last 10 years or so) discoveries about dinosaurs. The book is loaded with color pictures (computer generated dinosaur images) on virtually every page. These depict the creatures, their environments, theoretical lifestyles, etc. There is a lot of information presented in bite size segments. You can pick it up, read/view a few pages, then put it down having finished one topic rather easily. The prose is not especially geared for children as there are a lot of technical terms included in the text. However, the author is pretty matter of fact, straight forward in his presentation and does not sensationalize what he covers. He does not have to. It's amazing what scientists can deduce from the fosil evidence presented here. A kid's book? Adult book? I'm choosing a coffee table book (oversized but not unwieldly) that anyone can pick up and browse through.

My boys (nine and eleven) LOVE this book!! They were into dinosaurs as kids, but this book brought it all back with great updated content and very cool pictures. I am very happy with this purchase and recommend it for all dinosaur-lovers young and old.

I bought this book for my nephew.........He read it,.that means he enjoyed........................I am sure your children will enjoy reading this book............

This is a good book if you have the DVD of the same name - which I do. It reflects back on selected scenes in the DVD of the dinosaurs fighting, eating, walking, etc. and explains those sections in more depth. It does a good job and is easy for a 7 year+ child to follow along. It's a nice book to read together and talk about the movie scenes and spend time with your child too.HOWEVER - if you don't have the DVD and have watched it already, the book just doesn't make good sense and doesn't really depart any valuable information to a young reader. The context from the movie is essential.I can, without hesitation recommend this book and the DVD as a bundle. Perfect for a Christmas or birthday gift!

was a gift...have heard no complaints, yet.

Short version: If you have to choose between the "Planet Dinosaur" doc (henceforth PD #1) & Scott's "Planet Dinosaur: The Next Generation of Killer Giants" (henceforth PD #2), I recommend reading PD #2 in conjunction with other, more recent books (E.g. Naish/Barrett's "Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved").You can read the rest of this review on Goodreads.

very interesting with many intriguing ideas