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K-Gr 3 Set in spreads of dreamy dinosaur art, these 20 playful paleontologic poems overflow with wit and useful information. "What kept the Spinosaurus warm/When it was colder than the norm?/Spines much like a solar panel./(And long underwear of flannel.)" Sandwiched between two general poems entitled "The Age of Dinosaurs" and "The End of Dinosaurs," ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Beginning by defining "The Age of Dinosaurs" ("The dinosaurs / First lived outdoors / During the time Triassic") and ending with their demise ("What made the dinosaurs die out? / Why don't they still parade about?"), Florian rounds up all the usual prehistoric suspects (Brachiosaurus, Iguanodon, Triceratops) and adds a few outliers (the sea reptile Plesiorus, the flying reptile Pterosaurus) and lesser knowns (Minmi, Troodon). The twenty res...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Beginning by defining "The Age of Dinosaurs" and ending with the creatures' demise, Florian rounds up the usual prehistoric suspects and adds a few les...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The endpapers of Dinothesaurus feature a smiling pterosaur—its full skeleton visible—extending one enormous wing to a young girl, who tentatively shakes it. It is an appropriate opening to the book, in which Douglas Florian, in his signature style, inventively weaves together dinosaur facts and fun and presents them through a human lens. “The Age of Dinosaurs” and “The End of Dinosaurs,” respectively, serve as bookends to frame the other eighteen dinosaur-specific poems. Humor abounds, often playing off the pronunciation of the d...Log In or Sign Up to Read More