Books and kit for dinosaur fans
A short, sensible list. You don’t need any of it: a museum visit and a library card do most of the work.
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Fossil hunting
- A 10x hand lens (affiliate link)For looking closely at fossils, pebbles and museum specimens.
- Fossil dig kits (affiliate link)Plaster blocks with a replica fossil to dig out at home. Messy, in a good way.
Books
- Stegosaurus books for children (affiliate link)Look for recent ones: Sophie was only described in 2015, and older books may still show eight spikes or a second brain.
- Dinosaur encyclopedias (affiliate link)For the bigger picture: every group, every period.
At home
- Stegosaurus skeleton model kits (affiliate link)Build your own, then check it: plates alternating, four tail spikes, no shoulder spikes.
- Stegosaurus figures (affiliate link)For play, and for comparing plate shapes with the plate-by-plate page.