Dinothesaurus
Prehistoric Poems and Paintings (with audio recording)
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
This book is full of dinosaurs,
Both carnivores and herbivores.
You'll find a big Iguanodon,
As well as a clever Tro-o-don.
There's Spinosaurus and T. rex,
Plus plesiosaurs with giant necks,
And others from an ancient age.
Want to learn more?
Then turn the page!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Florian's free-flowing, witty collection of poems and collages about dinosaurs is a giganotosaurus delight perhaps his best work ever. The poems marry facts with a poet's eye for detail: the Brachiosaurus was "longer than a tennis court" and the Ankylosaurus says, "We like spikes and we like scutes/ (Bony plates we wear as suits)." Small experts will appreciate the "Glossarysaurus" at the end, but the heart of the book is in its humor, the spontaneity of both illustrations and poems, and Florian's slightly askew view of the Mesozoic creatures. A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton spews cutout images of things a T. rex might actually have eaten, along with a tumble of other things (newspaper clippings, a boot, a building), while the text ends with a great pun ("I find it terrific/ That it's T-rex-tinct"). The tiny (20-inch) Micropachycephalosaurus stares up at a huge display of his enormous name spelled out phonetically, in illuminated caps and as a rhombus. Art and text will encourage aspiring paleontologists and poets to parse these pages again and again. Ages 6 up.
