can anyone recommend a book about dinosaurs suitable for a 3-4 year old?

[poodlerockin]

Specifically about the different types of dinosaurs, and what they eat :)

[losingallmarbles]

'Harry and the Dinosaurs' by Ian Whybrow will cover different types of dinosaur, but not what they eat

[littlebylittle]

Usborne do good ones I think.

[FreudianSlippery]

I am about to get this one

[YouCantTeuchThis]

My 4yo chose [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dinosaurs-Prehistoric-Explained-Rupert-Matthews/dp/1848101457/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&qid=1298274820&sr=8-21&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 this one] and I was a bit reluctant.

However, although it is a proper encyclopaedia-type book, it is very colourful.

It is sport in this house to get people to read it as a bedtimes story...pronouncing the names is challenging, to say the least

[YouCantTeuchThis]

ffs this one

[Frawli]

My just turned 4 year old DS has a set of 4 like this, Discover the dinosaurs

Which he loves, we borrowed the plant eater one from the library and he wanted it renewed and renewed so we ended up buying it. They aren't cheap though, about £9-10ish each from Amazon marketplace. They do dinosaurs in the air, sea, meat eaters, plant eaters, prob about 12 dinos in each.

I got a good one in Asda with loads of dinosaur facts.

It has loads more info than the other more expensive ones he has and he likes it very much. It was only £2 in Asda too, so very reasonable. I nearly didn't get it for him because I thought it might be too old for him, but decided to get it anyway as only £2 and it was our bedtime reading for many nights. Has prob about 50 dinosaurs in and includes for each of them... their diet! And also how to pronounce each name, where in the world they lived etc, which has got my son interested in that concept too.

We also have the Harry books, which are very nice, but they are obviously just stories, not dino facts.

I like the look of the one YouCantTeuchThis linked too, but I am not allowed to buy any more books

[cymruoddicatref]

Not really about the names of real dinosaurs, but I can't resist recommending the brilliant "bumpus jumpus dinosaur rumpus" by Tony mitten. If you love dinosaurs you must buy this book - years ago a listened to TM perform it in our local library and we have loved it ever since for its fabulous energy and rhythm, and mad Dino names. And satisfyingly, they all fall asleep at the end.

[HappyAsIAm]

Meg's Eggs has three different dinosaurs in it, but not huge amounts of detail.

[jamaisjedors]

The series, "how do dinosaurs..." We have www.amazon.co.uk/How-Dinosaurs-Say-Good-Night/dp/0007137281/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1301063384&sr=1-1&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 this one are great bedtime books and have the names of quite a few dinosaurs in.

[jamaisjedors]

gah www.amazon.co.uk/How-Dinosaurs-Say-Good-Night/dp/0007137281/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1301063384&sr=1-1&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

[Zoonie]

Just to echo cymruoddicatref: Dinosaurumpus is such a classic. There are so many big picture books with rhyming stories in them that get published every year but Dinosaurumpus is superior in a number of ways. It manages to crowbar in a bunch of real dinosaur names, it even gets a couple of the first mammals in there, and it is so FUNKY, You'd have to have no sense of rhythm to not 'get' this book.

I'm quite nostalgic for the time when my kids wanted to read it all the time!

[goosiegander]

Pet To School Day Hilary Robinson (Author) Tim Archbold (Illustrator) is about a your class who bring their pets to school for a day. Their teacher though can't bring his - as he is a dinosaur caught in a dinosaur park - but will the dinosaur turn up?

Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here Come the Dinosaurs! [Paperback]
Kaye Umansky (Author), Nick Sharratt (Illustrator)