Education Extra Book Picks.Byline: The Register-Guard "The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer," by Barbara Kerley; illustrations by Brian Selznick; Scholastic Press, 2001 Age group: 7 to 12 I'll bet I'll Bet was an NBC game show that aired from March 29 1965 to September 24 1965, that was created by Ralph Andrews. The host of this program was Jack Narz. It was a precursor of It's Your Bet, which aired with four different hosts during its four year run: Hal March, Tom everyone knows a "dinosaur kid." The names of little-known, hard-to-pronounce creatures roll off this child's tongue, and check-out time in the library is an opportunity to find out even more. If he had been born into today's world, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (8 February 1807-1889) was an English sculptor and natural history artist renowned for combining both in his work on the life-size models of dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, south London. would have been one of those kids. Hawkins grew up in 19th-century England drawing and sculpting sculpting Cosmetic surgery The surgical reshaping of a tissue. See Deep tissue sculpting, Facial sculpting. animals. As an adult, he became interested in dinosaurs. No one really knew what dinosaurs looked like, but, with the help of scientist Richard Owen Sir Richard Owen KCB (July 20 1804–December 18 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. He was widely regarded as malicious and dishonest but he was also one of the most brilliant and influential biologists of his time. , Hawkins took small fragments of fossil bones and teeth, compared them with living animals and created amazing life-size models. He made clay figures, created molds from them, built iron skeletons that he set in brick foundations and then covered the skeletons with cement casts from the molds. Commissioned to build dinosaurs on the grounds of London's new Crystal Palace, Hawkins invited 21 scientists to a New Year's Eve party at which guests dined inside a life-size model of an iguanodon Iguanodon (ĭgwăn`ədŏn) [Gr., = iguana tooth], herbivorous ornithiscian dinosaur, characterized by teeth similar to those of the iguana, a horny beak, spikelike thumbs, and a powerful tail. ! His dinosaurs can still be seen at the Crystal Palace. Hawkins also created dinosaur skeletons for the Smithsonian and Princeton University Princeton University, at Princeton, N.J.; coeducational; chartered 1746, opened 1747, rechartered 1748, called the College of New Jersey until 1896. Schools and Research Facilities . Barbara Kerley became interested in Hawkins when she saw a picture of the iguanodon dinner party and was struck by Hawkins' unusual name. After looking at an original scrapbook A Macintosh disk file that holds frequently used text and graphics objects, such as a company letterhead. Contrast with "clipboard," which is reserved memory that holds data only for the current session. of Hawkins' work, illustrator Brian Selznick fashioned the cover of "The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins" to resemble the old leather of the scrapbook and the pages to look like Victorian paintings set in a three-act play. This masterful creation won a 2002 Caldecott Honor Award for illustrations. It is a fascinating book for kids interested in dinosaurs and an intriguing look at a little known historical figure. By Susan Jewett, librarian, Riverbend Elementary School, Springfield |
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