Whereas dinosaur books are today extremely popular and produced for almost all social groups at different scientific levels and age groups, this type of popularization was less common in Germany at the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th Century. During the 19th Century geology and palaeontology as topics for children books were relatively rare in Germany, compared with books on biology, or compared with Anglo-Saxon literature. Geosciences were not always neglected, sometimes just interwoven with other themes dealing with exotic countries, wild animals and humans of different cultures. One of the very first well illustrated examples of such literature was F. J. J. Bertuch’s (1747-1822) “Bilder aus fremden Ländern”, published in several volumes (1790 -1822), where among many scientific topics the emergence of new volcanic islands and other geologic phenomena were thematized. Another example is the work of the mathematician and physician J. H. M. von Poppe (1776-1854) who started in 1822 to publish a series of popular books on astronomy, beginning with a volume on mathematical aspects of the earth, and later on the other planets. The field of paleontology, however, was still more or less neglected, although from the second half of the 19th Century popular books on geology for adults were published with great success e.g. by Bernhard von Cotta (1808-1879): “Geologische Bilder” (1852). We describe this process of popularization of geosciences from different persepectives: the various genres of literature (books, magazines and journals, like „Die Gartenlaube“), the different topics in these publications, the sociology of the authors (between amateurs and professionals), and the role women played. One of the female authors was Clementine Helm (1825-1896), married to the director of the geoscience section of the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. She published several youth books, where she incorporated science into a book genre (“Backfischroman” - novels especially written for adolescent girls). She was, it seems, also the first novelist who included in one of her slightly autobiographic books Darwin’s theory on evolution (1877).