By the independent investigative journalist Jonathan D. Whitcomb
[Updated: November 15, 2018]
This short non-fiction book, for readers eight to fourteen years old, gives the following benefits:
- Allows the reader to believe as she or he chooses about these animals
- Does not tell you what to think but encourages deeper thinking: how
- Informs you about real persons who saw apparently real animals
- Explains benefits of believing someone who may be telling the truth
- Demonstrates critical thinking, which is important for future scientists
- Informs you about persons from different cultures, comparing them
As with most of my nonfiction books, this one shows readers evidence, albeit mostly cryptozoological, for recent “flying dinosaurs,” which is a popular phrase that means pterosaurs. The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur was written for middle-grade children and teenagers.
The following quotations give a glimpse into this nonfiction:
Acknowledgements
Thank you to all those who told me what they saw. Patty Carson sent me an email in 2011 and told me about the flying creature she had seen in Cuba when she was a little girl. We later talked by phone. One year before I talked with her, I called Eskin Kuhn, and he told me about what he had seen in that same area of Cuba: two flying pterosaurs. Patty and Eskin greatly helped my research. . . .
Chapter One
After about five seconds, the creature jumped up and flew away. It had a leathery brown coloring, with no sign of any feathers. The end of its long tail was diamond shaped.
Patty and her brother ran home, a house at the military base at Guantanamo Bay. She was excited to tell the rest of her family about the “dinosaur,” but they did not believe her. Thy said she had seen a pelican or a frigate bird. She told them, “no way” and explained that when it stood up it was as tall as a man. Then she used the word ‘pterodactyl.’
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Eskin Kuhn’s sketch (left) compared with Patty Carson’s (right)
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The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur (nonfiction, paperback)
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Dinosaur book for children and teens
Why would the new book The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur be the best Christmas or birthday gift for many kids and teenagers? It invites them into a new world of adventure in cryptozoology: true stories of encounters with modern living pterosaurs.
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Living pterosaurs in the Philippines
. . . about 12 years ago, and I was just about 11 or 12 then when I saw it. I saw the flying creature here in Las Pinas, Philippines near our house . . . it looked a like a really large bat . . . The wingspan is about 4-6 meters tip to tip . . .
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The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur
. . . One day in 1965, a few children were walking near some tall grass in eastern Cuba. Patty was about six years old and was with her little brother. Suddenly an animal stuck its head up above the grass, about thirty feet away from Patty.
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. . . the boy noticed something on the roof of a nearby hut. . . . the creature appeared to be four-to-five feet tall . . . and leathery (no feathers). A “long bone looking thing” stuck out the back of its head . . .
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Brother and sister see live pterosaur in Texas
. . . me and my older brother were sitting in our carport [in Texarkana, Arkansas] It was getting dark but there was plenty of light in the sky when we saw what we believe to be a pterodactyle [pterosaur]. The wingspan seemed to be about 25’ to 30’ ft . . .
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Patty Carson sees live pterosaur in Cuba
At least within the realm of cryptozoology, the 1971 sighting by Eskin Kuhn, of two long-tailed pterosaurs, has been . . . supported by another sighting around 1965, by Patty Carson of California . . .
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Live Pterosaurs in America: Not extinct, flying creatures of cryptozoology that some call pterodactyls or flying dinosaurs or prehistoric birds
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Learn about these amazing encounters in many states of the U.S.A.: Buy yourself a copy of this incredible cryptozoology book about modern extant pterosaurs in the United States of America
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How have these modern living pterosaurs avoided being officially discovered by the many biologists and nature photographers? It’s the dogmatic extinction assumption, the assumption that all species of pterosaurs became extinct long ago.
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