The little boy from Dino Pets (2007) finally gets to show his menagerie off to his class, but will school ever be the same again?Plourde’s playful verse follows the little boy as he repeatedly attempts to bring just the right dinosaur to school for pet day. But the tallest dino wrecks the bus, the widest crushes the lunchroom table, the smartest eats all the math tests and the spikiest? “At recess time / we played a game.
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/ Our soccer balls / were not the same.” A final spread of dinosaur facts describes the dinosaur that fits each superlative and explains that what scientists know about these prehistoric creatures changes with new discoveries and findings. For teachers, this holds lots of spark for a creative-writing lessonand a cautionary warning against holding a classroom pet day. Kendall’s artwork glows with deadpan realism, taking this imaginative tale to a whole new dimension. Watching the little boy’s pride turn to chagrin as each successive pet causes mayhem and destruction is as much fun as the chaos itself.Readers will delight in this latest dino pets installment and wonder where the dinosaurs might go for their next calamitous adventure.(Picture book. Dinos that love to move and groove get children counting from one to 10—and perhaps moving to the beat.Beginning with a solo bop by a female dino (she has eyelashes, doncha know), the dinosaur dance party begins.
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Each turn of the page adds another dino and a change in the dance genre: waltz, country line dancing, disco, limbo, square dancing, hip-hop, and swing. As the party would be incomplete without the moonwalk, the T. Rex does the honorsand once they are beyond their initial panic at his appearance, the onlookers cheer wildly.
The repeated refrain on each spread allows for audience participation, though it doesn’t easily trip off the tongue: “They hear a swish. / What’s this? / One more dino on the floor.” Some of the prehistoric beasts are easily identifiable—pterodactyl, ankylosaurus, triceratops—but others will be known only to the dino-obsessed; none are identified, other than T-Rex.
Packed spreads filled with psychedelically colored dinos sporting blocks of color, stripes, or polka dots (and infectious looks of joy) make identification even more difficult, to say nothing of counting them. Indeed, this fails as a counting primer: there are extra animals (and sometimes a grumpy T-Rex) in the backgrounds, and the next dino to join the party pokes its head into the frame on the page before. Besides all that, most kids won’t get the dance references.It’s a bit hard to dance, or count, to this beat.(Picture book. When a young T. Rex named Penelope starts school, she learns some lessons about her classmates; most importantly, they are not for eating.Higgins’ starts out as most back-to-school books do: A nervous youngster equipped with an awesome new backpack and hearty lunch worries about her classmates. But then the orange-and-white dino, who’s clad in pink overalls, is taken aback to find that all her classmates are children—the human kind. And “children are delicious,” so she eats them.
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Noodleman forces her to spit them out and reiterates the titular rule. Penelope’s classmates, covered in disgusting spit, express their displeasure with hugely expressive faces and postures. Penelope’s efforts to make friends are unimpressive to the kids (and will have readers in stitches!).
A sad and lonely dino trudges home to some advice from her parents, but the temptation the next day is just too great. Noodleman, Penelope ate William Omoto again!” The whole class is afraid of her, except Walter, the goldfish. But when she extends the hand of friendship to him, he gives her a taste of her own medicine, leading to a change of heart and some new friends. Higgins’ illustrations combine scanned textures, graphite, ink, and Photoshop elements, and they feature a wonderfully diverse class that includes a girl in hijab, a tyke in glasses, and a boy wearing a kippah amid classmates of varying skin and hair colors and body types.Fans of macabre, tongue-in-cheek humor (and twist endings!) will enjoy time spent with Penelope.(Picture book.
One little boy knows just what to bring to school on Pet Day: dinosaurs, of course! But his first dino is too tall for the school bus; the next is a bit too loud for class; and the third is too spiky for one unlucky soccer ball. The search for the perfect classroom dinosaur kicks off a prehistoric pet parade.and school will never be the same!With bouncy text, strikingly bold illustrations, and a section of fun facts about the amazing Jurassic giants, this perfect read-aloud is as educational as it is silly and satisfying.Expand Product Details. One little boy knows just what to bring to school on Pet Day: dinosaurs, of course! But his first dino is too tall for the school bus; the next is a bit too loud for class; and the third is too spiky for one unlucky soccer ball. The search for the perfect classroom dinosaur kicks off a prehistoric pet parade.and school will never be the same!With bouncy text, strikingly bold illustrations, and a section of fun facts about the amazing Jurassic giants, this perfect read-aloud is as educational as it is silly and satisfying.
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