"Dinosaurs - The Grand Tour: Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs From Aardonyx To Zuniceratops" by Keiron Pim is a remarkable book that stands out due to the highly entertaining and readable prose of Mr. Pim, accompanied by the remarkable illustrations by Fabio Pastori. The combination of their talents creates a unique reading experience that sets this book apart.

I was a fool! Every experienced Walmart shopper knows that if you see something new on the shelf you pounce. You don’t say, “well, I’ll come back in a few days and get it . . . “ You know exactly how this story ends, don’t you?

I went back to buy Mrs. Butterworth’s Cinnabon syrup and her epic Cinnabon pancake mix and there was no Cinnabon pancake mix!!

Premise/setup: Sixty-five million years ago, human beings exist and are living on one or more planets somewhere in space.

Adam Driver is a spacecraft pilot for hire who has an opportunity to pilot a ship to another planet with “cargo” consisting of human beings who are in suspended animation until they reach their destination. By agreeing to take this job, Driver’s character will be away from his wife and young daughter for a lengthy period of time, but the pay is excellent, and Driver will stay in touch with his family with messages and video chats. 

I love Walmart and I am not embarrassed to admit it. It wasn’t always the case but I do now. From time to time I will review new products that I bought in Walmart. This time it’s Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie ice cream. Let’s dish!

The cardio benefits of bike riding are well known. I tried bike riding to improve my weight training and found it worked beautifully! Here’s what I did . . .

This is a fantastic collection of the work of twenty paleoartists. Each chapter begins with a one paragraph biography beside a large reproduction of a spectacular piece of art that is representive of the artist’s work. In tiny print above the artist’s name is the country the artist hails from. The pages that follow present work by that artist and detailed captions with the name of the piece, the medium, and information about the dinosaur(s) that are depicted.

Catch up with our Dino Dog of the month, Ziggy!

For those who have enjoyed Foster and Frylinck’s Oscar winning Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher, get ready to love this collaborative work in a new book for children, A Journey Under the Sea.

SUPER DINOSAUR was originally published by IMAGE COMICS as a series of comic books beginning in 2011 and had a 23 issue run concluding in December of 2014. The issues were collected in a series of 4 trade paperbacks that are available in both softcover and in kindle ebook format. The term “trade paperback” refers to a compilation of comic books and they are generally available at comic book stores, through comic book publishers, online and in some book stores.

This collection of paleoart is more than a panoramic view of dinosaurs as they may have lived and died. We have seen that before. This volume is a breathtaking look into the dinosaur world at both the micro and macro level by those who, by extension, might be considered scientists as well as artists. As Philip J. Currie notes in his foreword, scientific illustrators can produce drawings but it is the artist who can flesh out the bones with muscles and skin and make the resulting art look hyper-realistic and dynamic.

The excitement begins with the full color cover illustration of a huge millipede and a dragonfly with a wingspan of 3 feet! The endpapers are an appropriate forest green with silhouettes of various insects that crawled the earth hundreds of millions of years ago.

Philip J. Riley is the editor of a wonderful series of books published by Bear Manor Media that are devoted to the shooting scripts of classic horror films such as FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY, and many more. WAR EAGLES by David Conover and Mr. Riley is part of a separate series devoted to “lost” screenplays that were never actually filmed and therein lays a tale.

I’ve been around the block a couple of times when it comes to pitching things in Hollywood and while I can’t say I’m an expert, I know a thing or two about high concept ideas; especially ideas involving dinosaurs. I know the genre extremely well and I like to think I’ve seen just about everything.