This is a book for slightly older children (in the 7-10 year age group). It was a bit too technical for my 3 yo but we enjoyed looking at the pictures and pronouncing the names.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.

A very cute book about animals who lived before and with dinosaurs. The pictures and layout of this book were engaging and my 5 year old enjoyed this book. I love it when books put in pronunciations, so you know you're saying the animals name correctly. The was it a dino section was very helpful and easy for a kid to understand.

Lovely children's book about dinosaurs! Loved the pictures, the pronunciation help and the glossary. I wish it could've been longer! I feel like there are much more to go on about dinosaurs and with the more scientific language used, the book seem to be for older kids that can read more than 30 pages... I am definitely putting this one on my list for when my daughter is older! Thank you NetGalley and Kids Can Press for the free ebook copy.

This is the best book for a dinosaur lover!!! There are so many different types of dinosaurs, not just the ones you always hear about. This book has wonderful illustrations and each dinosaur is spoken about in an interesting way!!!

This is a good book for a slightly older child that is interested in dinosaurs or rather what makes a dinosaur. There are difficult and long words throughout which I think makes it less accessible for younger children. The illustrations are good and appealing

What a fun way to help young readers understand what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur! Packed with just enough info to keep readers wanting more.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Kids Can Press for the ARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. This is a children's nonfiction book. I loved it. Ok I admit, I am a huge fan of fossils and all things dinosaur related. This is a must for those kids that are interested in dinosaurs! It is colorful, creative but still factual. It tells you why an animal is or is not a dinosaur!! It explains.similarities and differences and even give the pronunciation! I learned things as well. I think most kids would enjoy. 5 stars

I thought that this book was excellent!

It was brilliantly illustrated and the images were bright and eye catching.

The book was well laid out and I liked the way that the different characteristics were gone through to find out which ones chosen were dinosaurs, and if not, why not.

It is 5 stars from me for this one – fun and informative and the perfect book for any young dinosaur fans out there!

Kind of niche, this does still survive to be worth consideration. It gives us only ten main spreads, each concerning one prehistoric animal, and generally demolishes the idea that they were a dinosaur. This one is an amphibian, that one was too aquatic, that one had the wrong pelvic arrangement, and so on. It's a brave book that teaches the young what something is or was through examples of things that aren't that something, but that is what this boils down to. Illustrated quite well for a young audience, the pages do finally come up with a true dinosaur, and we can then find a couple of other examples and types of the beasts. So it's not encyclopaedic, it's not got all the blood and gore and dynamism of so many dinosaur books (or should that be quote/unquote "dinosaur" books), but what it does present is the idea of the researcher's checklist of dino-requirements, and of how that said research is still going on where this subject is concerned. With caveats at how well it will be received by the young, then, this gets four stars for at least doing what it set out to do.

Beautifully illustrated depiction of animals that were once confused for being dinosaurs. It was interesting to go through the characteristics of what makes a dinosaur and look at animals that were once thought to be such, but then identify why there are not actually dinosaurs. There was a lot of research that went into it, and the author reminds the reader to check sources before they take them to be fact.

For kids who love dinosaurs, this book will be on repeat for sure. It explores ancient creatures who look like dinosaurs, but are not classified as such. A mix of cute cartoon drawings and scientific explanations, this book will be a great edition to the libraries of dinosaur lovers.

This book is great for dinosaur lovers to learn more about prehistoric animals. The illustrations are great and the information is approachable for different ages.
Many thanks to Kids Can Press and NetGalley for the advance copy.