Books for Young Children

DIGGING UP DINOSAURS
By Aliki
From Let's Read-And-Find-Out series HarperCollins Publishers $4.95

DID COMETS KILL THE DINOSAURS?
By Isaac Asimov
From Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe series Dell Yearling Nonfiction $4.95

HOW DID WE FIND OUT ABOUT DINOSAURS?
By Isaac Asimov
Avon Books

DINOSAURS, ASTEROIDS, AND SUPERSTARS
By Franklyn M. Branley
Crowell Publishing Co.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS?
By Franklyn M. Branley
From Let's Read-And-Find-Out series HarperCollins Publishers $4.95

THE NEW DINOSAUR LIBRARY
By Burton and Dixon
Gareth Stevens, Inc.

CREATURES OF LONG AGO: DINOSAURS
By Jane H. Buxton, editor
A National Geographic Action Book (pop-up book) National Geographic Society $16.00

LAST OF THE DINOSAURS, THE END OF AN AGE
By Eldridge
Troll Associates

THE VISUAL DICTIONARY OF DINOSAURS
Eyewitness Visual Dictionaries series Dorling Kindersley, Inc. $16.95

THE LAST DAYS OF THE DINOSAURS
By Gabriele
Penny Lane publishers

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS?
By Jaber
Julian Messner publishers

DINOSAUR VALLEY
By Mitsuhiro Kurokawa
Chronicle Books $14.95

DINOSAURS: THE FASTEST, THE FIERCEST, THE MOST AMAZING
By Elizabeth MacLeod
Viking $11.95

WHERE TO LOOK FOR A DINOSAUR
By Bernard Most
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich $12.95


Books for Older Children

TRICERATOPS
Also TYRANNOSAURUS, BAROSAURUS, and CORYTHOSAURUS in series
From the American Museum of Natural History Dorling Kindersley, Inc.

DINOSAURS AND OTHER PREHISTORIC ANIMALS: FACT FINDER
By Dr. Michael Benton
Kingfisher $12.95

THE DINOSAUR ENCYCLOPEDIA: A HANDBOOK FOR DINOSAUR ENTHUSIASTS OF ALL AGES
By Dr. Michael Benton
Aladdin/Simon & Schuster $7.95

DINOSAURS FOR EVERY KID: EASY ACTIVITIES THAT MAKE LEARNING SCIENCE FUN
By Janice Van Cleave
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. $10.95

SEARCHING FOR VELOCIRAPTOR
By Lowell Dingus and Mark A. Norell HarperCollins Publishers $15.95

DOUGAL DIXON'S DINOSAURS
By Dougal Dixon
Boyds Mills Press $17.95

MACMILLAN ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DINOSAURS AND PREHISTORICAL ANIMALS: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life
By Dougal Dixon et al
MacMillan $25.00

THE DINOSAUR QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOK: EVERYTHING KIDS WANT TO KNOW ABOUT DINOSAURS, FOSSILS AND PALEONTOLOGY
By Sylvia Funston
OWL Magazine and The Dinosaur project $16.95

HOW DINOSAURS CAME TO BE
By Patricia Lauber
Simon & Schuster $17.00

DINOSAUR WORLD
By Don Lessem
Boyds Mills Press $19.95

RAPTORS! THE NASTIEST DINOSAURS
By Don Lessem
Little, Brown & Company $14.95

THE GREAT DINOSAUR ATLAS
By William Lindsey
By paleontologist of the Natural History Museum in London and Yorkshire Museum in York, England. He appeared with David Attenborough in the television series "Lost Worlds--Vanished Lives."

DISCOVER DINOSAURS: BECOME A DINOSAUR DETECTIVE
By Dr. Chris McGowan
A Royal Ontario Museum Book Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. $9.95

DINOSAURS
By Dr. Angelea Milner, consulting editor The Nature Company Discovery Library
TIME-LIFE Books $13.50

THE NEW ILLUSTRATED DINOSAUR DICTIONARY: An Indispensable Handbook for Dinosaur Lovers
By Helen Roney Sattler
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books $14.95

NEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT DINOSAURS
By Seymour Simon
Mulberry Books/William Morrow & Co. $4.95

RAPTORS, FOSSILS, FINS AND FANGS: A PREHISTORIC CREATURE FEATURE
By Ray Troll and Brad Matsen
Tricycle Press (Berkeley, CA) $14.95

THE SEARCH FOR THE KILLER ASTEROID
By Gregory L. Vogt
Millbrook Press (1994) Available from Amazon.com Books at http://Amazon.com $17.40

Articles

"What Caused the Mass Extinction: A Debate"
by Walter Alvarez, et al., in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, Oct. 1990, p. 76.

"Killer Crater in the Yucatan?"
by J. Kelly Beatty in SKY & TELESCOPE, July 1991, p. 38.

"The Science of Doom"
by Sharon Begley in NEWSWEEK, Nov. 23, 1992

"The Day the Dinosaurs Died"
by Ron Cowen, ASTRONOMY, Vol. 24, No. 4, April 1996, pp. 34-41.

"Demise of the Dinosaurs: Mystery Solved"
by R. Dietz in ASTRONOMY, July 1991, p. 30.
On the discovery of the impact crater in the Yucatan.

"Dinosaurs"
by R. Gore in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, Jan. 1993, pp. 2-53.

"An Asteroid to Die For"
by Stephen Jay Gould in DISCOVER, Oct. 1989, p. 60.

"Multiple Impact Event in the Paleozoic: Collision With a String of Comets or Asteroids?"
by Michael R. Rampino and Tyler Volk, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 23, No. 1., Jan. 1, 1996, pp. 49-52.

"New Links between Chicxulub Impact Structure and the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary"
by V.L. Sharpton et al NATURE, #359 - 1992, pp. 819-821

"Sudden Extinction of the Dinosaurs: Latest Cretaceous, Upper Great Plains, U.S.A."
by Sheehan, et al., SCIENCE, Nov. 1991, pp. 835-838.

Articles on Classroom Projects

"U'32's Jurassic Park II" by Tom Keck, cover story in TIES:

THE MAGAZINE OF DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, March 1996, pp. 44-51. This article is about a Vermont elementary school project where students created a model Jurassic Park with robotics and remotely-operated vehicles.

NOTE: Free subscription to TIES Magazine is available for educators. Write to TIES Magazine, Hartley Data, 1807 Glenview Road, Suite 100, Glenview, IL, 60025-9976, or visit their web site --
http://www.TCNJ.EDU/~ties/

ARTICLE in THE UNIVERSE IN THE CLASSROOM NEWSLETTER
A past issue devoted to "Cosmic Collisions" is available to download from the ASP web site on the Internet. After choosing Universe in the Classroom, it's listed as #23 in the index. ASP web site -- http://www.aspsky.org

NOTE: THE UNIVERSE IN THE CLASSROOM is a quarterly newsletter from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is free for anyone involved in teaching astronomy. For grades 3-12. (see ASP contacts under "SOURCES")