![]() ![]() Gideon Kendall's illustrations are a real pleasure, with bold colors and humorous expressions throughout that will draw the reader into the story.Do you love petting your Lystro or Bulbdog? Do you want to be able to pet all your dinos? Then this is the mod for you! Though there are a few stumbles in the rhythm, the overall idea and flow are fun and upbeat, ideal for animated storytelling that will excite our little readers. Lynn Plourde writes in simple rhyme, great for literary development and memorization. For instance, what would it actually be like if the longest dinosaur was at the playground? Imagining the possibilities and reasoning the probabilities are both at play in this book. Kids enjoy the wonder of dinosaurs and this book both inspires imagination and develops reason. But not so! You'll have to read it to see. After trying the fastest, lo-o-ongest, softest, smallest, and scariest dinosaur, it seemed that his pet search would only end in disappointment. As it turns out, dino pets of any kind have their own set of complications. In this story a young boy happened upon a Dino Pets store, and so begins the plot: "I got a dino for a pet, the BIGGEST dino I could get." One can imagine the problems about to arise, so it is not surprising when the boy needs to change his choice of pet. It's difficult to decide which pet is the best, especially when it's a comparison of dinosaur pets. This is a fun, imaginative, and educational book. I only rate this four out of five stars because the rhythm is sometimes uneven. Kendall’s bright and friendly illustrations really bring the story to life and don’t make the dinosaurs seem scary. Kids may enjoy listening to the rhyme in Dino Pets and seeing the funny scenes when the dinosaurs interact with humans. I like that it shows an assortment of dinosaurs that are not often used in other books, and an author’s note at the back tells the name of each dinosaur featured in the book as well as some information about it. He runs out of dinosaurs to get from the pet shop and is sad, but in the end, all the dinos come back to him because, “No one likes to sleep alone.” This is a cute story about trying to find just the right pet that adds in the clever turn of the pets being dinosaurs. He picks the biggest dino, the smallest, the longest, the scariest, but either they don’t fit in his house, they run away, or they frighten his family. Dino Pets follows a young boy who takes home all different kinds of dinosaurs for pets, but none of them works out. I had used Dino Pets with one- and two-year-olds during our unit on dinosaurs, and they always enjoyed it. I recently came across this book at the library and remembered using it in my classroom when I was a preschool teacher. Writing new kinds of stories is a challenge, but it makes writing fun and keeps me interested in the process. I love to try new kinds of writing such as poetic stories, a biography, a graphic novel, and more. problem stories, character stories, graphic novel scenes, fables) modeled after my books. I also LOVE sharing my books with kids at schools: doing interactive readings, turning one of my books into a play, and teaching students how to plan and write different kinds of stories (i.e. I LOVE writing, the whole creative process. ![]() So I'm still an author-in-training-learning to be a better author all the time. I was already writing educational books (listening & speaking ideas for the classroom), but PICTURE BOOKS-that was different!ĭifferent, and sloooooow! I had 13 years of rejections before getting my first book published, Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud, and I still get more rejections than acceptances-even after having more than 40 books published. They fell asleep after 2 or 3 books, but I kept reading stacks and stacks of picture books and started to dream. ![]() I read the boys picture books at bedtime. When I got married, I got 3 & 4-year-old stepsons as part of my ready-made family. I write kids' books-talk about a FUN job! I worked for 21 years as a speech-language therapist in Maine schools. ![]()
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