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THREAD: This was my kid to a T(rex), so thought I'd pull her favorite books off our shelf and list them, for any other parents whose kids need engaging books about biology and evolution:

https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1499869385644593153

2/ A good way to engross a child is to let them follow the paths of the early explorers--Cuvier's catalogs of animal drawings, Darwin's journey on the Beagle. Even those who got it wrong (Waterhouse) or who are just making up pretend biologies for fun (Olander's monsters)...

3/ Here are links to some of the books my daughter came back to again and again:

Dover edition of Cuvier's animal drawings (there are other Cuvier publications, but this is the most kid friendly):

amazon.com/gp/product/048…

4/ Fiona Macdonald's "Inside the Beagle with Charles Darwin":

thriftbooks.com/w/the-beagle-w…

5/ Jennifer Armstrong's "Audubon: Painter of Birds in the Wild Frontier":

thriftbooks.com/w/audubon-pain…

6/ Jan Wahl's "The Field Mouse and the Dinosaur Named Sue," a mouse's-view story of Sue's arrival and careful assembly at the Field Museum, with Sue's back story:

thriftbooks.com/w/the-field-mo…

Barbara Kerley's "The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins," which tells a fascinating story of the challenges faced by early attempts to reconstruct fossils and make them available for public enjoyment:

thriftbooks.com/w/the-dinosaur…

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Also, pretty much anything DK or Eyewitness.

And, just for fun, Johan Olander's "A Field Guide to Monsters," which describes ridiculous made-up creatures in field-guide format complete with mock taxonomies:

barnesandnoble.com/w/a-field-guid…