Dinosaur Trouble
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.92 (719 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1596439351 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Nick is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist, and during his down time, he collects PEZ dispensers and grows tomatoes in the backyard. Nick Bruel is the author and illustrator of New York Times bestseller Boing, Bad Kitty, Bad Kitty Gets a Bath and Bad Kitty Meets the Baby, among others. He lives in Tarrytown, N
And that’s just in the first four pages. Complex vocabulary and sentence structure make this book a good fit for advanced young readers or as a read-aloud. (At the same time, the apatosaurus mother calls the pterodactyls much inferior to us.) Nosy seeks out the dino anyway, and the two eventually unite their families. Frequent black-and-white cartoon illustrations, both inset and full page, enliven the text and add a light comic tone. Together they devise a plan to end the Tyrannosaurus rex’s reign of terror and have more success than anticipated. Much of the book’s humor relies on wordplay and the juxtaposition of the clever mothers next to their dim-witted husbands. Grades 2-4. From her answers he quickly learns a number of big words about himself: nidifugous, pterodactyl, pulchritudinous, and nomenclature. --Suzanne Harold . From Booklist Nosy, a newly hat
Sarah said Not a good read-aloud.. Got this book because we are introducing longer "chapter books" to our 5- and Not a good read-aloud. Got this book because we are introducing longer "chapter books" to our 5- and 3-year-old. The 5-year-old likes dinosaurs, and we're also a fan of the Babe movies (based on King-Smith's other work,) so I thought it might be good. As another reviewer pointed out, the violence might be too much for a sensitive child. I was not averse to the idea of herbivores tangling with a T-Rex, but what I didn't like was the gore in the descriptions of these encounters. Completely unnecessary. Found myself skipping over and changing lots of lines. Also, there was a lot of talk about pooping. And not in a funny way - more crass. I can see how the story attem. -year-old. The 5-year-old likes dinosaurs, and we're also a fan of the Babe movies (based on King-Smith's other work,) so I thought it might be good. As another reviewer pointed out, the violence might be too much for a sensitive child. I was not averse to the idea of herbivores tangling with a T-Rex, but what I didn't like was the gore in the descriptions of these encounters. Completely unnecessary. Found myself skipping over and changing lots of lines. Also, there was a lot of talk about pooping. And not in a funny way - more crass. I can see how the story attem. Perfect for kids that love dinosaurs! Mel Burnett My husband and I read this book aloud to our 4 year old. My husband and I didn't particularly like the story, but our dinosaur obsessed son loved it! I liked that it exposed him to a ton of new words and it held his attention.. Chris said Poorly written, gross, juvenile. This book is awful. In this book the mom dinosaurs are brilliant and skillful and the dad dinosaurs are lazy fools. The moms are constantly making up for the dad's inability to understand the situation.The book is gross. It lingers over descriptions of dinosaurs eating flies off dead dinosaur carcasses. The dinosaurs hang upside down and poop, and the poop narrowly misses their heads. Poop comes up again and again.The villain, a T Rex, eats baby dinosaurs, a fact the author apparently finds fascinating: "I wonder what wretched animal will die today to feed its digusting appetite."The story is fatuous and predictable. It's juvenile,and not in
SOMETIMES THE MOST UNLIKELY PAIRS MAKE THE BEST OF FRIENDS. A hilarious prehistoric yarn for newly-independent readers from a master of children's animal stories.All pterodactyls know that flying dinosaurs are superior, and all apatosauruses know that any dinosaur with only two legs is surely second-class. Nosy, a pterodactyl, and Banty, an apatosaurus, become great friends even though their parents have forbidden them to play together. With Nosy's fast flying and Banty's smarts, the two take on the biggest predator on the Great Plain, and conquer their parents' prejudices in one great adventure.