Chinese / People's Republic of China
Zhong guo kong long di tu
(The dinosaur map of China)
Jin, Haiyue
(text)
Yang, Jing
(text)
Xie, Dan
(text)
Dong, Yanan
(illus.)
Beijing: Bei jing lian he chu ban gong si (Beijing United Publishing), 2022. – 73 p. + 6 supplements
ISBN 978-7-5596-6200-2
Dinosaur | Map | Paleontology | Archeology | Geography | Non-fiction
Reading age: 6+
White Ravens issue: 2023
This exquisite non-fiction book about the dinosaurs that lived in ancient China about 250 million years ago introduces some 300 species, giving their geographical distribution and describing how they lived. Text and illustrations draw on scientific research in palaeontology, archaeology, and geography. Maps of dinosaur museums, a »dino-newspaper« and some postcards are included in an appendix. This volume is representative of the rise of Chinese informational picture books for children over the past decade. Jin Haiyue and Xie Dan are researchers in the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Yang Jing is a researcher at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research. Dong Yanan (b. 1991), illustrator of »Kong long kuai di« (Express delivery from Dinosaur World) and »Kong long li fa shi« (Dinosaur hairdresser), is currently teaching at City Design College of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. [FW, ZX]