This week for the Fiction Friday feature, I am reviewing the Audible Original, A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs by Ben Garrod. This audio work was released in July 2019. It is 2 hours & 42 minutes in length and read by Ben Garrod. The following overview is provided from Audible: Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all the tongue-twisting names, picking favourites based on ferocity, armour, or sheer size. For many kids this love of ‘terrible lizards’ fizzles out at some point between starting and leaving primary school. All those fancy names slowly forgotten, no longer any need for a favourite. For all those child dino fanatics who didn’t grow up to become paleontologists, dinosaurs seem like something out of mythology. They are dragons, pictures in books, abstract, other, extinct. They are at the same time familiar and mysterious. And yet we’re in an age of rapid discovery – new dinosaur species and genera are being discovered at an accelerating rate, we’re fearing more about what they looked like, how they lived, how they evolved and where they all went.
I loved this Audible Original. I enjoy re-falling in love again with dinosaurs and all the mysteries that surround them. This audio work is perfect for children and adults alike. I found this audio work to be a fascinating look at how science is finding out new things about dinosaurs. The narrator was fantastic. It was easy to follow and listen to. The pacing of the information presented was perfect for me. I also feel like we were given the right about of information to not get lost in everything being told to us. There was no information overload like I have had with other works that I have consumed. I hope they follow up this work with a sequel as I would love to learn about more dinosaurs and be reminded of information I have long forgotten. I highly recommend this work to anyone who loves or once loved dinosaurs.
I give this Audible Original 5 out of 5 stars.
Tomorrow for the Missing Person Saturday feature, I am highlighting the missing person’s case of Michael Rapue. Next week for the Fiction Friday feature, I am reviewing the Audible Original, It Burns by Marc Fennell. Until then keep reading on; Nerd out!
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