Surprise! Our bestselling little dinosaurs are back for a BIG birthday celebration!
Everyone has a birthday, and from riotous birthday parties to the excitement of being one year older, having a birthday is the highlight of a young child's year.
All little dinosaurs love to get presents, and this new board book will be an immediate favorite. From birthday hats to Ceratosaurus-sized cakes, America's young readers will laugh out loud as the celebration moves from "bad" birthday behavior to just the right amount of silliness and sharing. Bestselling duo Jane Yolen and Mark Teague have created the perfect introduction to birthday parties, with the same beloved humor and warmth of all their previous bestselling "How Do Dinosaurs" books.
Here's a wonderful way to say "Happy Birthday!" to any dinosaur...young or old!
Publishers Weekly
As in their previous books, Yolen and Teague delicately nudge readers toward appropriate behavior using rhetorical questions and loveably indecorous dinosaurs. At a birthday party, does a dinosaur child "finger the frosting,/ lick all the ice cream?" or "grab all the presents?/ Snatch up every card?" A yellow and red Kentrosaurus "greets every guest—then tells them/ their presents are simply the best." As ever, the joy is in the dinos' impish behavior, as Yolen and Teague prove there's no social situation that can't be made more fun with dinosaurs. Ages 3–5. (Sept.)
From the Publisher
HOW DO DINOSAURS SAY GOOD NIGHT?
"A delight from start to finish; better buy more than one."--BooklistHOW DO DINOSAURS LOVE THEIR CATS?
HOW DO DINOSAURS LOVE THEIR DOGS?
"Kids who need a reminder about being gentle should get the message without feeling called out."--Publishers Weekly
HOW DO DINOSAURS CLEAN THEIR ROOMS?
HOW DO DINOSAURS COUNT TO TEN?
"Kids who love dinosaurs will have fun."--Children's Literature
HOW DO DINOSAURS LEARN THEIR COLORS?
HOW DO DINOSAURS PLAY WITH THEIR FRIENDS?
"Yolen's rhyming text just glides across the tongue as the gigantic beasts have fun and while human readers learn their colors."--Children's Literature
"Illustrator Teague presents a variety of dinosaurs, and young kids will delight in learning and saying those tongue twisting names."--Children's Literature
Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot
The team of Yolen and Teague has found a formula that works with both picture and board books. They pose a question. Then they use a variety of dinosaurs to demonstrate examples of bad behavior. After that litany, they offer examples of dinosaurs showing good behavior. Of course, the setting for this book as denoted in the title is a birthday party, so it is a lesson for kids about receiving their guests and presents, sharing cake and ice cream and playing games fairly. The part of these books that is always strange to me is that the family is human and so are the party guests while the protagonist is a dinosaur. Teague, as he has in other books in the series, has carefully printed the names of each of the dinosaurs. Kids just love letting these multisyllabic names roll off their tongues. If you liked the others in this series then add this one to your collection. Reviewer: Marilyn Courtot
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