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For some reason, there is an ever--abiding fascination among kids with all things dinosaur. From an early age, they love to look at picture books about these long--extinct creatures, graduating to reading about them, building models, watching TV shows and movies, going to museum exhibitions, etc. It is a constant source of amazement to us that our six-year-old grandson can blithely identify and reel off the names of allosaurus, velociraptor, pteranodon, jobaria, spinosaurus, sfegosaurus, and a host of others when we can barely wrap our tongues around Tyrannosaurus rex.

Catering to this fascination can make holiday--gift giving an easy chore, and among the more-interesting ways to do so is with the 3D Wooden Dinosaur Puzzles from B.C. Bones, Rohnert Park, Calif. Made from top-of-the-line birch, these pieces interlock smoothly to form an ultrarealistic skeleton of a variety of these fierce prehistoric creatures, each of whom are adjustable to...