Wednesday, September 2, 2009

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? By Jane Yolen. Illustrated by Mark Teague

This book is part of a series and very similar to the other book I reviewed titled How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by the same author and illustrator. Again, this book uses a very simple rhyming scheme that makes it very easy and enjoyable to read. Also, like the other Dinosaur book, this one has the names of the specific dinosaurs written somewhere on the page they appear (for example, Cryolophosaurus is written on a table cloth on one page). The illustrations are very rich and give the dinosaurs a life and personality all their own. There is also a wide variety of dinosaurs included in this book. There are some very obscure dinosaurs that I had never hear of before such as Polacanthus and Gorgosaurus. This is a good thing because it allows children the opportunity to be able to identify and see drawings of dinosaurs they have never been exposed to before. This book also has a very similar ending to the other Dinosaur book. Overall I found this book to be very enjoyable and humorous.

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