Best children’s books about dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are a rite of passage, and a brilliant early-years topic. This is the corpus’s full dinosaur shelf: the stories children ask for again and again, from rhyming romps for the carpet to a comic or two for older fans.

It is a small, hand-picked set rather than a long list, because we would rather show you the dinosaur books worth reading than pad it out. Most sit in EYFS and Key Stage 1, with a couple that stretch up for the child who has memorised every name.

Loud, funny and full of stomp. Exactly what a dinosaur topic should be.