★ Starred review from Kirkus Reviews and a favorable review from School Library Journal! With over 7.5 million online reads on the EPIC! reading platform alone!
★ Arkansas Library Association Award-winning book, and California Reading Association Eureka! Nonfiction Honor Book! Perfectly blends paleontology, chemistry, and ecology, making it an ideal choice for elementary science education.
★ Written by award-winning author Darcy Pattison, biology and anatomy research expert Elizabeth Hutchinson, and popular children's book illustrator John Joven of Smithsonian Children's Books and Penguin books!
★ The fascinating scientific concept of the life cycle - or the law of conservation of mass - is presented in a humorous and heartwarming way in this story, skillfully discussing how humans and nature are interconnected. The charming illustrations bring the story to life.
★ Follow calcium, carbon, and nitrogen atoms on a journey through time, as a humorous story tells the tale of different atoms traveling from dry bones in prehistoric times to modern objects and even our jawbones, and beyond. Spanning long geological periods, it connects prehistoric life with modern children, making scientific knowledge subtly resonate with readers.
★ For children over 5 years old.

This series consists of three books: "A Little Bit of Dinosaur", "A Little Bit of This Dinosaur", and "A Little Bit of That Dinosaur".

Did you know that you have a little bit of dinosaur in you?
And it’s your cousin’s fault. She dared you to pitch a peanut high in the air and catch it in your mouth. You didn’t know it had a nitrogen atom that used to be in the egg of a Hadrosaurus.
This humorous story follows a nitrogen atom as it journeys from dry bones to your skull – and beyond!
The journey began with Book 1, A Little Bit of Dinosuar, which received a starred Kirkus review. It continued in Book 2, A Little Bit of THIS Dinosaur. In this new story, the amazing circle of life—or the conservation of mass—is again illustrated through a historical look at the Hadrosaurus dinosaur.
Sisters Elleen Hutcheson and Darcy Pattison team up again for a new adventure with the circle of life. Each still wonders why their mother taught them to throw food and catch it in their mouths.

Elizabeth Elleen Hutcheson (Author)
Elizabeth Elleen Hutcheson was a Biology and Anatomy/Physiology instructor for thirty years. She has her National Board Certification in Science. Hutcheson has taught elementary science students for museum programs and Audubon camps. She has received many grants and was awarded the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship for Arkansas, and a Fulbright Memorial Fund Fellowship for a three-week program in Japan. She has traveled extensively to study science and nature, including Costa Rica, the Amazon rainforest, the Galapagos islands and across the U.S.

Darcy Pattison (Author)
Children's book author and indie publisher Darcy Pattison writes award-winning fiction and non-fiction books for children. Her works have received starred PW, Kirkus, and BCCB reviews. Awards include the Irma Black Honor award, five NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books, two Eureka! Nonfiction Honor book, two Junior Library Guild selections, a NSSTA Notable Social Studies Book, and two NCTE Notable Children's Book in Language Arts. She's the 2007 recipient of the Arkansas Governor's Arts Award for Individual Artist for her work in children's literature.

John Joven (Illustrator)
John Joven of Bogotá, Columbia studied graphic design at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has illustrated over twenty children's books, including Digging for Dinosaurs, A Smithsonian Kids book. Among other publishers, he's worked with Usborne, Running Press, Penguin Workshop, Grossett & Dunlap and Macmillan.