![]() I must admit however that the attempt to pronounce Josephoartigasia has defeated even myself I simply let them get away with calling it a “giant Capybara”. It’s particularly adorable to hear my four year old shout “TITANOBOA” in the deepest voice he can muster. They have been reading it so much that they have started referring to each page by the animal’s pet name in addition to or even instead of their species (“Now let’s read about Jasper the Corn Snake!”)! They also love dramatically throwing open the flap and shouting the name of the creature as it pops up. I had to get my cat Fritz to pose with his appropriate page! My boys are already pretty familiar with Smilodon from I Am NOT a Dinosaur! Select any of 101 different dinosaurs to adopt, including the powerful Tyrannosaurus Rex, and use your Nintendo DS stylus to tend to all your pets needs. Likewise, while we only get brief introductions to the relevant family groups for each pair of animals, the inclusion of short profiles on various other members of each family helps encourage readers to think about how exactly they all relate to each other, which is the basis from which taxonomy springs. Lomax explicitly connects the book’s stars in evolutionary relationships to each other, explaining that their environments have caused them to develop the adaptations that make them distinct from each other. While the book doesn’t go into detail about evolutionary processes or taxonomic definitions, it nevertheless provides a bit of a base for branching out into those topics. Apparently all the cool kids are calling this the POGFISH. Ernest the Guinea Pig probably gets the closest relative of any of them, while Bubbles the Goldfish gets the hilariously broad category of “Ray-Finned Fishes” in order to show off the admittedly awesome Leedsichthys, a Jurassic filter feeder as large as many modern whales. Numerous inset boxes on both the pop-up page and the reverse side of the flap detail various aspects of not only the featured prehistoric beasts, but also many other members of their respective families, both living and extinct. Lomax emphasizes that these are not necessarily to be considered the ancestors of the modern creatures, but rather relatives of varying degrees of closeness to each other. These are juxtaposed with a fold-out flap which hides a pop-up version of an ancient member of their family. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.How cool is it that one can own a pet dinosaur? See Dinosaur Feathers for a poetic description of bird origins.Įach page features one of seven popular animal companions, each given a pet name in the text subtly connecting the audience more closely with them, the way one would with a real pet animal. Owen, Racine Public Library, WIĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ![]() Despite the text's uneven cadence, the subject matter and humorous art will appeal to children.- Maryann H. Brief facts about the featured species are appended. The scariest dino bursts into tears when it observes the boy's family running away in terror. The longest dinosaur allows himself to be used as a piece of playground equipment for climbing, swinging, and sliding children. The highlight of the tale is the skillfully rendered and entertaining double-page artwork, which is similar in tone and appearance to Mark Teague's illustrations in Jane Yolen's "How Do Dinosaurs" books (Scholastic). The simple story is told in rhyming couplets that don't always scan well, and the rhymes are occasionally stretched (e.g., "pocket" and "locked it"). The youngster sadly returns home only to find that the creatures are all there, waiting for him. ![]() Next, he chooses the longest dino for sale, with equally unhappy results, and so on, until the store's stock is depleted. ![]() However, when he discovers that the creature can't fit into his house, he returns to the shop (receipt in hand) to get another pet, "the fastest dino/I could get." Unfortunately, this one dons size 55½ sneakers and runs away. ![]() PreSchool-Grade 1-A boy goes to the new Dino Pets store and walks home with the biggest dinosaur available. Gideon Kendall lives in Brooklyn, New York. Lynn Plourde is the author of more than a dozen books for children. ![]()
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