By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb
My new nonfiction is for middle-grade children and many (but not all) teenagers: The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur. This is a short cryptozoology book, not about religion but about eyewitness sightings of apparent living pterosaurs. It invites you to seek the truth behind what people around the world report observing.
I highly recommend my new book to young LDS readers, yet it really is for English-speaking people of all faiths. I hope that readers will send in comments, either through something like Amazon customer reviews or through my contact page.
I gave this book a general age recommendation for readers: eight to fourteen years old. The most-delighted readers are more likely to be 10-12 year-olds, however. I expect a greater number of them will find the book both rewarding and easy to understand.
Here are some of the benefits I believe are available to young readers of The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur:
- This book does not indoctrinate the reader into what must be believed; it invites the reader to consider what people report observing.
- It does not ridicule the obvious interpretation of what people have seen; it compares one sighting with others, inviting the reader to use critical thinking.
- It does not rely on the imagination of professors regarding what may have happened (or did not happen) millions of years ago; it tells the reader what is seen today.
Here’s the URL for this “dinosaur” book for children and teens on Amazon.
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The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur (short nonfiction)
Is This for LDS Readers?
Although this short nonfiction was not written with LDS youth in mind, I feel confident that many of them can find my new cryptozoology book delightful.
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New ‘Dinosaur’ Book for Young Readers
The non-fiction paperback The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur introduces a new field of cryptozoology to kids and teens who are about eight to fourteen years old.
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Promoting Pterodactyls and the ‘Mormon Religion’
A biology professor in Minnesota wrote a blog post, the other week, blasting my research and investigations into sighting reports of apparent pterosaurs (AKA pterodactyls). Most of his declarations about my intentions, however, were false. His mistake about my purposes in writing that page on lds-nonfiction-dot-com, however, was interesting to me; I was actually writing to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who might enjoy reading my most recent book, Searching for Ropens and Finding God (every person deserves to know the truth). That’s why the page is on lds-nonfiction, instead of something like “Christian Nonfiction-Book Readers” or something like that. . . .
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The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur
The new non-fiction plus several other books about modern pterosaurs
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Modern pterodactyls in the United States
