About the Author

Ashley Hall is a paleontologist, naturalist, science educator and communicator. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Animal Behavior at Indiana University Bloomington. As Assistant Curator of Paleontology at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, she excavated, identified, and helped care for the museum's fossil collection.

Reviews

"A great way to inspire a child's interest in paleontology, this engagingly written book cultivates a deeper understanding of how fossils form, surveys their diversity, and points kids in the right direction to find fossils either in the field for themselves or in exceptional museum collections. I found it refreshing that the author covers not only fossils of dinosaurs but also of diverse vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, and microorganisms--which are rarely treated in children's books but represent the majority of fossils!" --Dr. Julius T. Csotonyi, Biologist and Scientific Illustrator

"An absolute must-have book for kids and curious adults! Filled with beautiful, smart, colorful explanations of what a fossil is, how and where they formed, and why they are amazing! I have a feeling future paleontologists will want to name a species Ashleyis hallus after this author." --Alie Ward, TV Personality and Host of Ologies Podcast

"Ashley Hall's Fossils for Kids is a wonderful introduction for youngsters to the world of paleontology. It is far more than a list of interesting factoids about different species of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals (although it has those in abundance). It explains the actual science of paleontology--what fossils are and how they form; how we find and uncover them; how we use this information to reconstruct the ancient worlds--in a family friendly volume. It is lavishly illustrated not only with reconstructions of ancient animals but also photographs of the real fossils themselves." --Dr. Thomas Holtz, Principal Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Maryland

"Dinosaurs are great, but they are just one part of many wonderful stories about fossils in this new book for junior scientists. Readers can "dig" as deeply as they want into the past with Ashley Hall's book, which combines fun facts with accurate science, beautiful images, and diverse fossil plants and animals that provide surprising insights about the history of life on our unique planet." --Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer, Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, National Museum of Natural History