Dinosaurs - what's the big deal?

My 6year old dgd has just shown me her library book about great women who changed the world, she informed me with delight it has Mary Anning in it!
We are all amateur palaeontologists in this family!

I think it's something that can be worn by both girls and boys so, in the current climate it's a safe bet for shops to stock up on.

I'm not suggesting write them out of history! I'm just overwhelmed by them on every T-shirt, duvet cover, book cover, TV show etc etc when there are other living creatures we never hear about. Do shops decide what the kids should be interested in, or do the kids get a say in the matter?

One of my favourite books when I was a child was a book about dinosaurs I bought at London Zoo when we went on a school trip; I was fascinated by it. And we're still learning about them. A programme the other day showed a bird that I'd never heard of before that had claws on it's wings to enable it to climb; yet another link to it's dinosaur past. However, neither of my grandsons are interested in them.

My two year old granddaughter is fascinated by them too!

Inclined to agree actually. Don't mind the friendlier looking dinosaur characters but some of them are terrifying and my dgd went through a stage of being terrified there was a T-rex under her bed for ages.

Because they are part of Earths past and extinct, my Granddaughter finds them fascinating too and soaks up any information she can find. There are hundreds of different species to learn about I don't think living animals that can be seen in the flesh hold the same sort of mystic and fascination.