3/10/2023 0 Comments Dino pets picture bookI am an Amazon associate, which means that clicking on the image of a book I reviewed or on the title of any book mentioned in the review will take you to full publishing and purchasing information, as well as other reviews and comments for most books. Loving both kids and books equally as I do, perhaps helping children and the adults who care about them find good books through this blog is the next best thing to being there. Retired after 32+ years as an elementary librarian, I really miss the joy of bringing together the right book with the right reader at the right time. Labels: Dinosaur Stories, School Stories (Grades Preschool-3) See also Plourde's earlier Dino Pets for more funny dino pet disasters. For teachers or diehard dinosaur fans, Plourde adds to artist Gideon Kendall's paleontologically correct illustrations with her appended "Dino Facts," which identifies each of the class's prehistoric visitors. Lynn Plourde, famous for her hilarious School Picture Day (Picture Puffin Books) has another comic tale of one of those special days at school in her latest Dino Pets Go to School (Dutton, 2011), just in time to kick off Pet Day or the ever-popular prehistoric life unit in your favorite classroom. What harm can a nice, spotted egg do to the school day? Well. This time the boy has a brainstorm: What kind of dino can't wreck classroom routine? How about a very young one? So he loads a dino egg on his red wagon and hauls it back to school. The boy keeps on trying-with the widest dinosaur (massive damage to the bench in the lunchroom) and the smartest dino, (a troodon smart enough to please the kids by eating the math tests before the quiz)-and the frazzled teacher gives him an ultimatum-" one more try!" Things go well until the class takes a recess and tries to get a soccer game going, and his styracosaurus attempts to make a head pass. Our boy tries again, this time with the spikiest dino from his menagerie. This show-and-tell pet day is not off to a good start. OUR WHOLE CLASSROOM NEEDED RECONSTRUCTION! Oh, well, how about a more compact dino? The loudest dino he knows? I am the author of several educational books for teens, and I occasionally review books for The New York Journal of Books.Well, technically, our little scholar intends to bring his tallest dino to school, but there's a little problem with seating on the school bus involving his long-necked sauroposeidon and some hanging traffic lights along the route. I penned African Americans of Chattanooga: A History of Unsung Heroes, which earned the 2014 East Tennessee Historical Preservation Award, and I earned the 2014 SCBWI Letter of Merit for an unpublished multicultural novel. It is a School Library Journal selection and received positive Kirkus and Horn Book reviews. My first picture book, Hammering for Freedom: The William Lewis Story (Lee and Low) debuted on September 24, 2018. It has received STARRED REVIEWS from Kirkus, Booklist, Publisher's Weekly and School Library Journal, and received a great review by The Wall Street Journal. 1 Picture Book in Women's Biographies and Children's American History. The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read (Random House) debuted as the No. Hello Everyone! I am a former special education teacher, and am currently a full-time children's writer, book blogger and freelance editor. She even imagines making a “dino-flap” (the equivalent of a doggy-door, only BIGGER) so her pet can come inside and sleep. She also imagines that her dinosaur is smart enough to count and say the alphabet, and drinks an entire pond dry when it gets thirsty. For example, the young girl imagines riding her dinosaur to school-where, of course, none of the teachers or students are afraid of it. But the book is equally excellent in displaying the fun of a boundless imagination. It is full of basic information about how a pet needs exercise, love, discipline, and playtime so it won’t destroy things or dig holes in the yard. This is a lovely little book for young children who dream of adopting their very first pets. Her desire is for something much bigger-something the size of, say, a HOUSE! She then details the tricks she would teach her dinosaur (“sit” and “fetch”), how she would walk him in the park, give him water to drink, and feed him the best foods (in this case, cabbage, greens and broccoli). In these few sentences, the MC (main character) tells how she has thought of acquiring a fish and even a hamster for pets, but they are simply too wet and too small. For example, the book opens with half-sentences, half-pictures, like so: This is a true “picture book,” telling the story of a little girl’s fantasy through pictures as well as text. Beginning with the adorable little white-hat-wearing, chocolate-skinned beauty on the cover (flanked by her humongous dinosaur, of course), author Alex Barrow’s newest picture book, If I Had a Dinosaur, grabs readers attention and never lets go.
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