Inside out T. rex Uncover the world's most famous dinosaur!

Utilizing a dynamic design and incorporating intriguing bite-size facts, the Inside Out series introduces younger readers to different objects, mostly involving bodies, by peeling away the layers. With appealing transparent sections and cutouts, each board-book-style volume explores a high-interest topic piece by piece. Much of the content in T. Rex is guesswork; the book concentrates on what can be learned about this extinct behemoth and its abilities from fossils and the assumptions that have been made by comparing it to animals alive today. Image-driven but nevertheless full of interesting tidbits, this is a fun resource that's better suited to casual browsers than serious researchers. Ultimately, an informative introduction that's built around an irresistible conceit.--Reagan, Maggie Copyright 2017 Booklist

Multilayered overlapping cutouts provide an unusually detailed 3-D look at T. Rex's innardsor at least what can be deduced about them from the fossil record.Visible through a big acetate window on the front cover, the cutouts peel back with each turn of a sturdy pagehighlighting, for instance, realistically depicted arm and leg bones, major muscle groups, or reconstructions of pulmonary and other systems. Notes around the central die cut, embellished with painted illustrations, cautiously explain what researchers know or believe from modern survivals or related fossils about each bit or system. Young dinomanes get not only a vivid anatomy lesson from this, but also a clear notion of how profoundly paleontology is based on educated guesswork: "By studying modern animals with this body structure, such as giraffeswe can guess how T. rex's body adapted." Other entries in the Inside Out series present similar deconstructions of a (particular) Egyptian Mummy, a (generic) Human Body, and Sharks, with a melodramatically posed great white as exemplar. Models, most of them children, in side illustrations for Human Body are diverse in age and race.Budding biologists and others with an interest in what's inside will be entranced. (Informational novelty. 6-9) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.