📚 Dinosaurs

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The recovered reptiles: discovery, the warm-blood and feather debates, and the popular science that never stopped growing.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject dinosaurs in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Dinosaurs	Dougal Dixon	1992	33
The Magic School Bus	Joanna Cole	1994	29
Eyewitness Dinosaur	David Norman	1989	19
Dinosaurs	Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld	2005	14
Dinosaur Time	Peggy Parish	1974	12
Did comets kill the dinosaurs?	Isaac Asimov	1988	12
Dinosaur Dynasty	Dougal Dixon	1993	11
Dinosaurs	Lambert, David	1978	9
Dinosaurs	Gail Gibbons	1987	9
Dinosaur Worlds	Don Lessem	1996	9
Dinosaurs (Zoobooks)	John Bonnett Wexo	1989	8
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs	Steve Brusatte	2018	8
Digging up dinosaurs	Aliki	1981	7
Dinosaur	David Norman	1989	6
Dinosaur brains	Albert J. Bernstein	1989	6
Dinosaurs	Spencer George Lucas	1999	6
How did we find out about dinosaurs?	Isaac Asimov	1973	5
What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs?	Megan Stine	2017	5
How big were the dinosaurs	Bernard Most	1994	4
Dinosaurs	Grace Maccarone	2001	4
The Princeton field guide to dinosaurs	Gregory S. Paul	2010	4
Last Days of the Dinosaurs	Riley Black	2022	4
Dinosaur Days	Joyce Milton	1985	3
Dinosaur Hunters	Kate Mcmullan	1989	3
The new dinosaurs	Dougal Dixon	1988	3
All Yesterdays	John Conway	2012	2
Dinosaurs	Thomas R. Holtz	2007	1
Big Dinasours!	Tori Kosara	2011	1
Knowledge Encyclopedia Dinosaur!	Unknown author	2014	1
The rise and fall of the dinosaurs	Stephen Brusatte	2018	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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