Barnum Brown had one ambition as a child: to grow up to be a great dinosaur hunter.? And that's just what he did when he was hired by the American Natural History Museum--working to build their astounding collection. ??????????? Barnum had a knack for finding dinosaur bones, a skill that rivaled the paleontologists before him.? His most amazing discovery was uncovering the largest carnivore that ever walked the earth: the tyrant lizard king, Tyrannosaurus Rex!??????????? Dig into the life of the greatest dinosaur hunter of all time with this exciting biography of Barnum Brown--the best noses in the business for sniffing out dinosaur bones.

 

This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the Young Hoosier Book Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2006 by Walker & Company .

Mike Downes is father of three children. He won the 1998 Hawaii Children's Literature Award for his manuscript There's a Leopard in My Laundry. This is his first book. David Sheldon was born in Cincinnati in 1957. When he was in 3rd grade he won 10 cents for making the best witch in art class, and seeing that he could win friends that way, was urged towards a career in art. Since then, he has illustrated the Dogmas and Cattitudes pop-up books for Running Press, CDs for Warner Brothers and Nick at Nite, as well as characters for television, greeting cards, and packaging.