Pros: Interesting subject, colorful full-page illustrations. Cons: Average and unimaginative writing for such creative subject matter.
Before Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, very few people in the world knew what dinosaurs looked like, according to the author of this book. In the mid-nineteenth century, Hawkins gained fame by creating the first life-sized models of dinosaurs. While his...
Pros: a great subject, an interesting man Cons: book doesn't do the subject justice
In London in 1853, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins hurried to his workshop. His passion was drawing and sculpting animals. Drawing and sculpting animals was his passion. Eventually he built dinosaurs. At this time in history, we had fossils, but we had ...
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