Age: 2-5 years
Genre: picture book
I recently
came across this book at the library and remembered using it in my classroom
when I was a preschool teacher. I had used Dino
Pets with one- and two-year-olds during our unit on dinosaurs, and they
always enjoyed it. Dino Pets follows a young boy who takes home all different
kinds of dinosaurs for pets, but none of them works out. He picks the biggest
dino, the smallest, the longest, the scariest, but either they don’t fit in his
house, they run away, or they frighten his family. He runs out of dinosaurs to
get from the pet shop and is sad, but in the end, all the dinos come back to
him because, “No one likes to sleep alone.” This is a cute story about trying
to find just the right pet that adds in the clever turn of the pets being
dinosaurs. I like that it shows an assortment of dinosaurs that are not often
used in other books, and an author’s note at the back tells the name of each
dinosaur featured in the book as well as some information about it. Kids may
enjoy listening to the rhyme in Dino Pets
and seeing the funny scenes when the dinosaurs interact with humans. Kendall’s
bright and friendly illustrations really bring the story to life and don’t make
the dinosaurs seem scary. This is a fun, imaginative, and educational book.
Bibliographic
Information:
Plourde,
Lynn. Dino Pets. New York, NY: Dutton Children’s Books, 2007.
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