Schiffer Kids - Sticks ’n’ Stones ’n’ Dinosaur Bones Story Book

The first book in the Unhinged History series is a ripping yarn full of adventure and deceit that brings to life the best-known public spat in all of the paleontology: the bitter rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. This frenzy of discovery and one-upmanship is known today as the Bone Wars was a gold rush-like scramble to find the most and best dinosaur fossils, thus bringing to glory to their respective home-base universities. Lively and witty rhymes plus wonderfully demented illustrations reveal how the paleontologists infamous rivalry began, and how despite making genuine and lasting contributions to the field, their mutual obsession with outdoing one another spun out of control. Hardback binding. 50 color illustrations. 48 pages. Authors: Enik, Ted - Newland, G. F.