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How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten?

by Jane Yolen, Mark Teague
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Overview

The bestselling, award-winning team of Yolen and Teague present their beloved dinosaurs in a new format with this fun, read-aloud board book that teaches young children to count from one to ten!

Come along for some BIG fun as your favorite dinosaurs delight young readers with their playful antics. How do dinosaurs count to ten? Over and over and over again!
This brand new board book format brings the gigantic humor of bestselling, award-winning team Jane Yolen and Mark Teague to the youngest readers, helping them learn to count from one to ten with a simple, rhyming text and laugh-out-loud illustrations! A perfect companion book to the other HOW DO DINOSAURS tales, and a great baby gift as well.

Describes how a little dinosaur counts from one to ten, using the toys and other things around him.

Synopsis

Come along for some BIG fun as your favorite dinosaurs delight young readers with their playful antics. How do dinosaurs count to ten? Over and over and over again!This brand new board book format brings the gigantic humor of bestselling, award-winning team Jane Yolen and Mark Teague to the youngest readers, helping them learn to count from one to ten with a simple, rhyming text and laugh-out-loud illustrations! A perfect companion book to the other HOW DO DINOSAURS tales, and a great baby gift as well.

Child Magazine

Last seen in How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?, these lovable lugs from the Jurassic period return in board-book format to help kids learn to count. Even pre-counters will enjoy the silly depictions: In one scene, a grinning T-rex hugs his "one tattered teddy bear" as he looms over his human mom, who gazes up adoringly at her supersize offspring. (Ages birth to 2)
Child magazine's Best Children's Book Awards 2004

About the Author, Jane Yolen

JaneYolen lives in Massachusetts.

John Schoenherr lives in New Jersey.

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From The Critics

Last seen in How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?, these lovable lugs from the Jurassic period return in board-book format to help kids learn to count. Even pre-counters will enjoy the silly depictions: In one scene, a grinning T-rex hugs his "one tattered teddy bear" as he looms over his human mom, who gazes up adoringly at her supersize offspring. (Ages birth to 2)
Child magazine's Best Children's Book Awards 2004

Publishers Weekly

Favorite characters and titles are now available in board book editions. Dinos delight in acting like toddlers in original board books starring the prehistoric heroes first introduced in How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark Teague. Just right for smallest hands, How DoDinosaurs Count to Ten? encourages youngsters to practice their numbers from a tyrannosaurus rex clutching his "one tattered teddy bear" to an apatosaurus reading 10 books (Teague subtly labels each terrible lizard somewhere in the drawing). The scaly stars set a good example (sort of) in How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms? as a velociraptor slides pink pajamas behind the bathroom door, and an airborne tropeognathus drops its clothes into a hamper. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Children's Literature

Assuming that kids can accept the premise that dinosaurs live with a human family (Dinosaur Bob set the precedent), then this is a pretty straightforward board book. On each page a dinosaur has the correct number of items described in the text. No Arabic numerals appear so a little extra reinforcement for the counting lesson is lost. Also, the dinosaurs change on each page. Fortunately, for parents and caregivers, they are all labeled. It is silly, but kids who love dinosaurs will have fun. In addition, they will learn the names of ten very different dinosaurs (if the reader can pronounce them all). This is a companion book to How do Dinosaurs Clean their Rooms? which means young kids can learn twenty of these tongue-twisting dinosaur names. Teague has fun with the expressions, body positions and coloration of these huge and now extinct creatures. 2004, Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, Ages 1 to 3.
—Marilyn Courtot

Book Details

Published
September 1, 2004
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc.
Pages
12
Format
Board Book
ISBN
9780439649490

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