How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?

by Jane Yolen, Mark Teague (Illustrator)

Overview

The bestselling, award-winning team of Yolen and Teague are back with another dinosaur tale--a fourth full-length picture book about how dinosaurs behave at school.

Everyone's favorite dinosaurs are back--and this time they are going to school. More fun dinosaur antics await. These prehistoric pupils are in a class of their own!

As in their previous books, Yolen and Teague capture children's rambunctious natures with playful read-aloud verse and wonderfully amusing pictures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780439020817
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2007
Series:	How Do Dinosaurs...? Series
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	43,646
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 12.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Mark Teague is the internationally bestselling illustrator (and author) of more than 50 books for children. His numerous awards and honors include the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the Christopher Medal. He has illustrated 12 full-size books and 11 board books in the widely successful How Do Dinosaurs...? series. He is the author of the popular Dear Mrs. LaRue, Firehouse!, and Jack and the Beanstalk and the French Fries. He lives in New York State.
Jane Yolen is the beloved author of more than 365 books for children and adults, including award-winning picture books, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In addition to two Nebula Awards and a National Book Award nomination, she has received a Golden Kite from SCBWI, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, and the California Young Reader Medal. Yolen's How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? was an ALA Notable Book and a Christopher Medal winner. The book has gone on to become a widely popular bestselling series with over 15 million copies in print. She lives in Western Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

A new cast of brightly colored dinosaurs appears in this charming back-to-school story. The text’s easy rhyme and rhythm will be familiar to those who have read other books in this series, and Teague’s charismatic and naughty dinosaurs will continue to delight readers with their antics and exuberance. Stygimoloch using one arm to prop up his raised hand as he blurts out is also likely to draw a smile from veteran teachers. A fun read-aloud for the first day of school.”—School Library Journal

“This eighth entry (counting the two board books) in the Yolen/Teague How Do Dinosaurs series features a cast of 10 brightly colored dinosaurs that manage to dominate the double-page spreads without overwhelming them. Questions arise when the dinos are put in common school-day situations. Would dinosaurs walk to school or carpool? Would they stomp and make a fuss on the bus? Would they roughhouse and punch and disrupt the class by yelling or fidgeting with their tails in the air? Of course not. Before they leap out the door at the end of the school day, readers will realize that these dinosaurs are helpful, tidy, and protective, “growling at the bullies till the bullying ends.” Yolen’s short, rhyming text and Teague’s irresistible, cavorting dinosaurs perfectly convey how dinosaurs could behave in school, large and powerful though they may be.”–Booklist

Jane Yolen and Mark Teague have done another wonderful job at creating a funny book that gets small children to think about their own behavior at school. This is a fun book for the classroom, library story time, and at home.”–Suite101.com

From the Publisher

PreS-Gr 1—Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, the multiple award-winning duo, present two educational programs showcasing instruments used in the type of folk singing for which they are well-known. They take turns introducing each instrument, simply explaining its parts and how it is played. Each instrument is played with an easy-to-sing-along song, such as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," "Skip to My Lou," and "Down on Grandpa's Farm." Viewers are encouraged to sing and/or dance along in most of the vignettes. Some basic concepts are also taught, such as counting, shapes, body parts, sounds, and directions. Things with Strings features guitars (acoustic and electric), mandolin, ukulele, banjo, autoharp, dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, mouth blow, and fiddle. Clap and Tap includes hand clapping, conga drum, international shakers, wooden spoons, and tap dancing. Cathy and Marcy also introduce several unusual wooden percussion instruments: the "frog" from Vietnam, which is carved in the shape of a frog with bumps on its back, along which the performer rubs a stick; the Japanese "cricket," which makes a cricket noise; and the Limber Jack and Limber Moose, both of which have jointed legs that "dance" on a wooden board, making a clacking noise. This excellent series will be welcomed by both public and school libraries.—Beverly Wrigglesworth, San Antonio Public Library, TX

School Library Journal