How Do Dinosaurs Go to Sleep?

by Jane Yolen, Mark Teague (Illustrator)

Overview

With more than 14 million books in print, the How Do Dinosaurs... series is a huge hit all over the world.

Humorous paintings of oversized dinosaurs with human parents make this an irresistible book for sharing. And we all know that when parents are ready to say good night, it turns out that sometimes little dinosaurs have other ideas!

Laugh and smile as the dinosaurs try everything to avoid bedtime -- from hiding under the bed, to screaming no! -- and then snuggle in as all the dinosaurs show they really know the right way to go to sleep -- a bath, a story, and a good-night kiss!

Brimming with humor and the familiar antics of this beloved series, here is a playful bedtime board book for every sleepy little dinosaur.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545941204
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	08/30/2016
Series:	How Do Dinosaurs...?
Pages:	12
Sales rank:	31,697
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	0650L (what's this?)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Jane Yolen is the beloved author of more than three hundred books for children and adults, including award-winning picture books, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her How Do Dinosaurs... books have sold millions of copies and are international bestsellers. She regularly travels the globe speaking and teaching. Jane lives in Western Massachusetts and St. Andrews, Scotland. You can visit her at janeyolen.com.

Mark Teague is the award-winning children's book author and illustrator of his own bestselling Dear Mrs. LaRue series, as well as The Sky Is Falling, The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf, The Tree House That Jack Built by Bonnie Verburg, and many other humorous picture books. In addition to his prized art for the How Do Dinosaurs... series, his illustrated novel, The Doom Machine, received excellent reviews. Mark lives in the Hudson River Valley with his wife and their two daughters.

Editorial Reviews

07/11/2016
Yolen and Teague return to a subject they covered in their 2000 picture book, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, as an unusual group of dinosaurs—concavenator, majungasaurus, and sauropelta, among them—demonstrate how one should and shouldn’t behave at bedtime. A pachyrhinosaurus hides under a bed that’s at least half as big as he is, and a yellow-feathered enigmasaurus wags a claw at its not-so-happy human mom (“Does he scream at his mother that he just won’t go,/ using his favorite words—no no no!”). Once again, Yolen and Teague’s hilarious visions of tantrum-throwing dinos should bring smiles to even the crankiest (and most bedtime-reluctant) kids. Up to age 3. Author’s agent: Elizabeth Harding, Curtis Brown. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

01/01/2017
Toddler-PreS—In this adaptation of the popular picture book, Yolen teaches readers about how dinosaurs go to sleep. The familiar illustrations show huge dinosaurs acting just like toddlers and include the proper name for each dinosaur underneath its depiction. The rhyming cadence of the text makes this a perfect read aloud for storytime. It will be difficult to keep this board book on the shelf with Yolen's recognizable name and the popular subject matter. A worthy addition to most libraries.

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