The true story of mid-19th-century English artist and sculptor Waterhouse Hawkins--the first person to build a life-size model of a dinosaur. Although dinosaurs are a familiar subject today, during the Victorian period not many people were aware of them. Hawkins changed all that by building sculptures of dinosaurs and displaying them on both sides of the Atlantic. Illustrated with acrylic paintings. Named one of the Best Children's Books 2001 by Publishers Weekly and a 2002 Caldecott Honor Book.