- In Authors & Books: Read the Illustrator's Note Read about Brian Selznick A long time ago, in 1853, no one knew what a dinosaur looked like. This was long before the movie Jurassic Park; in fact it was before anyone had even drawn a picture of a dinosaur. At least, no one had drawn a dinosaur before Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Hawkins worked with scientists who had discovered dinosaur bones. By ...teacher.scholastic.com/activities/dinosaurs/illustrations/index.htm