Dinosaurs Are Not Extinct: Real Facts About Real Dinosaurs

A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year * An Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee * A New York State Reading Association 2023 Charlotte Award Winner

Award-winning author-illustrator Drew Sheneman brings budding paleontologists the truth about dinosaurs in this informative and hilarious nonfiction picture book that will teach kids everything they didn’t know (and never thought to ask) about their favorite subject—dinosaurs! 

A long, long time ago, planet Earth was full of dinosaurs. Giant dinosaurs that ate plants, meat-eating dinosaurs that walked on two feet, dinosaurs with armored frills—all KINDS of dinosaurs.

Until an asteroid appeared in the sky. A big one. A hot one. A moving-very-fast one. When it hit, most of the plants and animals on Earth went extinct. It was the end of the dinosaurs . . .

. . . Or was it?

Actually, the latest research shows that the dinosaurs didn’t all go extinct. They’re still around us now. In fact, you’ve probably seen dinosaurs at the park, eaten dinosaurs for dinner, and maybe even cleaned dinosaur poop off your family’s car.

Who are these dinosaurs living all around us? Find out in this informative, hilarious, and 100 percent factual nonfiction picture book by award-winning author, illustrator, and beloved syndicated cartoonist Drew Sheneman.

“This informative and engaging nonfiction picture book, created with - Publishers Weekly

"It’s a whirlwind introduction to the dinosaur-bird connection, and while the book imparts wonderful scientific tidbits, the text infuses the subject with wry, laugh-out-loud humor. No doubt the story will send young readers out to spot their own dinosaurs in the wild!" - Booklist

"Why pine for prehistoric predators when their direct descendants are perching on the nearest birdbath?[...] Sheneman here gives the bird-dino connection fresh jolts of wonder and hilarity." - Kirkus Reviews