With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Bob Barner shakes the dust off the dinosaur bones found in museums and reminds us that they once belonged to living, breathing creatures. Filled with fun dinosaur facts (a T. Rex skull can weigh up to 750 pounds!) and an informational "Dinometer," Dinosaur Bones is sure to make young dinosaur enthusiasts roar with delight.
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The creator of Dem Bones digs up another set of rattling fine specimens for this splashy expedition into the world of fossils. A simple poem ("Dinosaurs are gone for good./ Maybe dinosaurs once lived in your neighborhood!") serves as an umbrella framework for a lesson on prehistoric favorites. Each turn of the page pairs a single stanza in hand-lettered type ("Dinosaurs had teeth to bite and jaws to chew") with an accompanying illustration, while a bite-size piece of additional information in smaller type helps extend the book's appeal to older readers ("The shape of the jaws and teeth help scientists find out if a dinosaur was a meat or plant eater"). The snappy, vigorous rhymes ("They had bones with disks and bones with points,/ bones for running with sockets and joints") propel the production forward, while the artwork, a jazzy blend of pen-and-ink, watercolor, cut and torn paper and computer graphics, creates a tantalizing blend of streamlined shapes and saturated colors. Barner shows each spotlighted dinosaur in both skeletal and living form, and two concluding spreads offer more information in a height chart and "dinometer" chart, fleshing out such questions as "What did it eat?" and "What does its footprint look like?" A splendid introduction to a perennially popular subject. Ages 2-8.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
reS-Gr 1-In a mode similar to Byron Barton's cheerful Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones (HarperCollins, 1990), Barner focuses on the bones themselves (and their fleshy coverings) rather than on their collection. Fancifully created in colorful paper collages, the creatures romp and galumph across the pages to the measure of the simple, rhyming text (bolstered by snippets of facts in a smaller font). A few extra pages of brief data on size, weight, favored comestibles, etc., will be helpful to parents and teachers. However, eagle-eyed dinophiles will be quick to point out that Barner's Brachiosaurus lacks the extra-long forelegs common to its kind, as they enjoy the bouncy rhythms and ebullient artwork.
Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Fun for lots of ages!,
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I have two sons who are 2 and 7-1/2 -- it's hard to find a book both of them like at the same time. They both love Dinosaur Bones! The younger one loves the pictures and simple rhymes, and the older one loves reading them to him. But there is also the smaller print on each page containing more advanced information, which is fun to read to my older son when we are one-on-one. We've checked this book out of the library a half-dozen times, and keep renewing it until they won't let us anymore. So I'm finally going to buy it!!!
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great book for kids who like dinos,
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My son adores this book. Has not tired of it, even after reading it every single night for months now. I bought it because we ran out of renewals at the library and I think this one will be in our reading rotation for a long time. At 2.5 years old, he knows his dinos and it very interested in fossils/bones/skeletons because of this book. It's a good length and it isn't scary so I don't have to skip any parts because he's so young.
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My 9 week old loves to look at the photos while I read the big text. The contrasting bones on the colorful background really get her attention. She loves it. When she is older we'll read the smaller text. She also loves the first and last pages of dinosaur foot prints.
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The last dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
The last dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! by Bob Barner in Back Flap
- Growing Up With Literature by Walter Sawyer on page 124, and Back Matter
- Sing Me a Story! Tell Me a Song!: Creative Curriculum Activities for Teachers of Young Children by Hilda Jackman on page 270
- Authors in the Kitchen: Recipes, Stories, and More by Sharron L. McElmeel on page 24
- Guided Comprehension in the Primary Grades by Maureen McLaughlin on page 77
- To Everything by Bob Barner in Back Matter
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