Presenting Velociraptor

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

“If the formula works, don’t change it” must be the motto followed
by the creators of the Tiny Perfect Dinosaur series, because each new
dinosaur has been an unqualified success. (Tyrannosaurus rex,
brachiosaurus, leptoceratops, stegosaurus, and triceratops are the dino
superstars previously profiled.) Each kit includes a small but
informative book along with an easy-to-assemble plastic skeleton model.

The latest subject is a relative rookie as far as dinosaur celebrities
go. Until the movie Jurassic Park, few nonpaleontologists had ever heard
of a velociraptor. But thanks to a good Hollywood agent, these toothy
little camera hogs are now glaring out from basketball crests, cereal
boxes, and holographic bubble-gum cards.

The easy-to-assemble skeleton sits on a display base, a small
improvement over earlier kits. The book provides an overview of what
kind of dinosaur the velociraptor was and how it was discovered 80
million years after its extinction. Careful readers will note that
velociraptor lived in the Late Cretaceous period, not the Jurassic.
Highly recommended.