Reader’s Annotations: Human parents and dinosaur children teacher a lovely lesson in manners in this perfectly apt bedtime story for young, budding archeologists. This book is bound to make little dinosaurs laugh, as it is read aloud to them!
Author: Jane Yolen
Illustrator: Mark Teague
Age: 4 - 8 years
genre/subject: Children's picture book, children's fiction
Plot Summary: Story follows several fathers and mothers telling their young dinosaur children that it is bedtime. The first half runs through a hypothetical response the the dinosaurs may have when they are told it is time to go to bed: pouting, shouting, roaring, demanding another piggyback ride. Then the narrator changes the tone by first saying, of course little dinosaurs don't act that way. The remainder of the story, the pages display different reactions from the dinosaurs, including: kisses, hugs and tucking their tails into covers.
Evaluation: Wonderful for modeling positive behaviors to children when they are instructed to do something that they may not enjoy, but they certainly need. I chose this book because my daughter who was a huge fan of dinosaurs since the age of 2 had received a couple of these books from friends and family. This author/illustrator team has paired up to create several of these books. The series is brilliant, in my opinion. I had never read this particular title in the series. My favorite feature to these stories is that somewhere on every page there is the name of the illustrated dinosaur. Sometimes the names are difficult to find. My daughter and I always make a point to search and find each name, and also to say each name out loud. She has learned several names of dinosaurs this way!
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Hook: Child behaviors portrayed by great, big dinosaurs.
Ideas, Uses: Teaching "good manners."
ISBN: 978-0590316811
Page Count: 40
Format: Hard cover
Publisher:
Age: 4 - 8 years
genre/subject: Children's picture book, children's fiction
Plot Summary: Story follows several fathers and mothers telling their young dinosaur children that it is bedtime. The first half runs through a hypothetical response the the dinosaurs may have when they are told it is time to go to bed: pouting, shouting, roaring, demanding another piggyback ride. Then the narrator changes the tone by first saying, of course little dinosaurs don't act that way. The remainder of the story, the pages display different reactions from the dinosaurs, including: kisses, hugs and tucking their tails into covers.
Evaluation: Wonderful for modeling positive behaviors to children when they are instructed to do something that they may not enjoy, but they certainly need. I chose this book because my daughter who was a huge fan of dinosaurs since the age of 2 had received a couple of these books from friends and family. This author/illustrator team has paired up to create several of these books. The series is brilliant, in my opinion. I had never read this particular title in the series. My favorite feature to these stories is that somewhere on every page there is the name of the illustrated dinosaur. Sometimes the names are difficult to find. My daughter and I always make a point to search and find each name, and also to say each name out loud. She has learned several names of dinosaurs this way!
Significance & Bibliographic Usefulness:
Readalikes: Any from
Awards/Lists:
Links to reviews in professional review sources
Hook: Child behaviors portrayed by great, big dinosaurs.
Ideas, Uses: Teaching "good manners."
ISBN: 978-0590316811
Page Count: 40
Format: Hard cover
Publisher:
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