Dining with Dinosaurs, A Tasty Guide to Mesozoic Munching
Dining with Dinosaurs takes you on a tour of who ate whom (and what) in the Mesozoic. You will learn all about the ancient food web, from enormous long-neck herbivores to teensy blood-drinking fleas. Along the way, you’ll encounter Spinosaurus on the search for fish, raptors hunting in packs, plants telling you how they eat sunlight, and scientists sharing their knowledge in comic-book style interviews. Get ready to be amused, surprised, and maybe even a bit grossed out when you learn what was on the prehistoric menu.
The book is intended for ages 7 – 12, and anyone else who likes their science delivered with lots of pictures and a sense of humor.
Praise for Dining with Dinosaurs:
“Five-star fare for librovores.”— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
(Read more at: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/hannah-bonner/dining-with-dinosaurs/)
“The author set out to write a book about the ‘vores’ and she has succeeded admirably. From the midnight snack on the front cover to the selected sources at the back, this junior reader is packed full of scientific fact; all presented in a fun and exciting manner.” – Dinosaurnews.org
Where to buy: from any on line bookstore, or at your local bookstore.
Book details:
Ages 7 – 12 (and anyone else who likes science delivered with lots of pictures and a sense of humor)
Hardcover
Published by National Geographic Children’s Books
When Fish Got Feet, When Bugs Were Big and When Dinos Dawned consists of my three previous books for National Geographic Kids rolled into a single paperback volume. I was delighted to have a chance to update some of the science (for instance the giant spider Megarachne turned out not to be a spider at all but a eurypterid, a kind of aquatic scorpion) and I also added ten new pages of activities and a new and improved family tree of the vertebrates.
(CONFUSION ALERT: The title of the three-in-one version of my When trilogy, When Fish Got Feet, When Bugs Were Big and When Dinos Dawned, includes the titles of all three individual books; as a result, if you type “When Fish Got Feet” into an on-line search, you will find both the stand-alone volume and the more recent 
When Bugs Were Big tells the story of life on our planet in the Carboniferous and Permian periods, the last two periods of the Paleozoic Era. You’ll be surprised to discover how many fascinating plants and animals preceded the much more famous dinosaurs of the Mesozoic, from giant insects flitting among the weird trees of the coal swamps in the Carboniferous to a huge array of mammal ancestors and dominated the landscape in the Permian. The book ends with the most devastating extinction ever: the end-Permian extinction, which set the stage for the next era, the Mesozoic.
In When Dinos Dawned, Mammals Got Munched, and Pterosaurs took Flight, A Cartoon Prehistory of Life in the Triassic, the survivors of the humongous end-Permian extinction evolve and diversify to fill every nook and cranny of the planet in a burst of evolutionary creativity. On land, forests of non-flowering plants reached new heights of diversity, insects evolved all sorts of techniques for eating the plants, and a host of odd archosaurs evolved, including the earliest dinosaurs. In the oceans, ichthyosaurs and other marine reptiles took center stage for the first time. Our shrew-like mammalian ancestors also emerged, fur and all (we think). The stage was set for the start of the true Age of Dinosaurs in the next period, the Jurassic.
Hannah Bonner 