The mystery of dinosaur extinction is solved! Scientists have plenty of theories about why dinosaurs are extinct, but the UK’s bestselling authorillustrator team of Claire Freedman and Ben Cort knows the real answer: The dinos were wiped out in an Underpants War! This wacky celebration of underpants is perfect for reading aloud, and the hilarious antics of T. rex and the gang are endlessly entertaining. Featuring fun, vibrant art and short, rhyming text, Dinosaurs Love Underpants is a prehistoric pleasure parents and kids will want to read again and again.
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From School Library Journal
PreS—Freedman and Cort offer another homage to underpants. Cartoons in bright colors and patterns pep up the rhymed tale that explains the demise of dinosaurs. According to Freedman, "When T. rex saw man's undies,/He roared with deafening rants./I don't want to eat you up./I want your underpants." All dinosaurs follow the obsessive fad, escalating to a manic dino tug-of-war that wipes out every order, saving mankind. Despite the skimpy plot, preschoolers will giggle as itchy or tight briefs annoy Stegosaurus or Diplodocus, while theft victim cavemen shyly cover up with huge leaves or the few remaining pairs of underwear.—Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA
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As long as you can suspend all sense of evolution, literature, and good taste and are of a single-digit age, you’ll crack up with hysterics at this theory of dinosaur extinction from the creators of Aliens Love Underpants (2007). According to the story, cavemen began to feel “embarrassed in the nude,” and so they “dreamed up underpants,” which the dinos coveted and copied, creating a mass frenzy that escalated into a Mighty Underpants War and the end of the giant beasts. Once again, the rhyming text and illustrations turn this into a comic delight. Preschool-Grade 2. --Andrew Medlar
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
You would think that any story that had underpants and dinosaurs in it would be a sure bet as a group read aloud. Not so. The rhyming does not flow and the story line is so silly that I think the kids even realize that this makes absolutely no sense. This could have been so much better. I really liked the illustrations - they are nice and vibrant, but even they can't save this book. It's too low on laughs - once you get over the initial laughs that are generated from the mere mention of underpants, there's just nothing there. Stick with Aliens Love Underpants and any of the other zillion dinosaur stories out there.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
By Kate T.
Format:Hardcover
We LOVE Aliens Love Underpants, and I was so excited to see this book...my son loves dinosaurs. I eagerly read through it and was horrified! I cannot comprehend how the author, illustrator and publisher all thought this was a good idea. The dinosaurs kill each other...they are lying dead in the last pages. I agree with another reviewer...rewrite it! It is not appropriate for the target audience at all. I would give it zero stars if Amazon allowed.
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
this was a big disappointment. the first underpants book, Aliens Love Underpants, was innovative, funny, and sweet. Dinosaurs starts out that way, but deteriorates into unpleasant violence. This is a SMALL CHILDRENS' book, for Pete's sake. Rewrite it.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By S. Pratt
Format:Hardcover
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While I agree with some of the points made by other reviewers (an absurd premise and a weird ending), my 6 year old finds this book hilarious. Yes, she gets that it is nonsensical, but, she finds it funny that dinosaurs are obsessed with underpants. We have not read the Aliens Love Underpants book. The ending is not horrifying in the sense that we all know that the dinosaurs were, indeed, "wiped out." What other reviewers seem to have missed is that it is actually a play on words ~ "wiped out" meaning exhausted as well as "wiped out" meaning extinct.
While not high literature, this is an entertaining book, especially for children of a certain age who find potty humor funny.
While not high literature, this is an entertaining book, especially for children of a certain age who find potty humor funny.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Ally Bee
Format:Hardcover
I am cracking up as I'm reading these reviews! This book is non-sense, but it's the best kind of non-sense! I have three boys ages 20 months to 6 years, and they all LOVE this book! It is without a doubt one of their very favorites. They laugh hysterically every time we read it. The beginning of the book tells you that this is the story of how dinosaurs went extinct. My boys have noticed that dinosaurs aren't roaming around the neighborhood and indeed don't exist anymore. So...the ending isn't at all horrifying to them. I haven't read "Aliens Love Underpants," and from what I can gather that may be the one people prefer. Having not read that one though...this book is just awesome. Love it, love it, love it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By T. Pulsipher
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Dinasours love underpants is a cute rhyming story for children that love to laugh at the thought of dinasours wearing underpants. This is a new humerous version of why dinasours go extinct. My son can't help but laugh every time I read this to him.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By debbie8355
Format:Hardcover
My 6 year old has just managed to read this aloud to my 4 year old (just with a little help with the Dinosaur names) and they were both laughing hysterically at the fabulous story. There are lots of brilliantly hilarious illustrations in this very large paperback edition to keep young children amused too.
The front cover is great and the 'Dinosaurs Love Underpants' is in sparkly blue lettering. It is a gift giving quality edition.
There are 24 main pages of story with a 4 line self contained poem on every other page. They have great rhyming and rhythm and together they form a brilliant story explaining a funny theory of why the dinosaurs became extinct.
The poem starts:
Dinosaurs were all wiped out,
A long way back in history.
No one knows quite how or why,
Now this book solves the mystery....
It all began when cavemen,
Felt embarrassed in the nude,
So someone dreamt up underpants,
To stop them looking rude.
And so it goes on in a really entertaining story.
Highly recommended.
The front cover is great and the 'Dinosaurs Love Underpants' is in sparkly blue lettering. It is a gift giving quality edition.
There are 24 main pages of story with a 4 line self contained poem on every other page. They have great rhyming and rhythm and together they form a brilliant story explaining a funny theory of why the dinosaurs became extinct.
The poem starts:
Dinosaurs were all wiped out,
A long way back in history.
No one knows quite how or why,
Now this book solves the mystery....
It all began when cavemen,
Felt embarrassed in the nude,
So someone dreamt up underpants,
To stop them looking rude.
And so it goes on in a really entertaining story.
Highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book was a major disappointment. The illustrations are vibrantly colored and well done, but the premise of the story is awful - besides the dinosaurs killing each other at the end over underpants, having dinosaurs and cavemen exist in the same time period is plain silly and wrong. (Yes I realize it is fiction but it takes the reader out of the story when they feel the need to make sure their kids understand that cavemen and dinosaurs did not exist at the same time no matter what the book says.) The rhyming of the story was also off, some verses rhymed while others didn't. Overall, I was disappointed in the book and wouldn't recommend it to others.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
dinosaurs
three year old granddaughter just loves this book. silly rhymes and great pictures hold her interest. she knows dinosuars dont exist anymore and this is a fun explanation
Published 23 hours ago by molly brenza
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book
this book is great...so fun to read with the grandkids..they laugh and so do I? Answers the age old questions...why did dinosaurs become extinct? The illustrations are fun too!
Published 21 days ago by Bonnie Bell
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun!
Cute book about how much dinosaurs love underpants. Fun and imaginative. Illustrations are great. Good bedtime read. Fun with dragons love tacos.
Published 1 month ago by Claudine
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book
My kids (twins) love this book! The are almost finished with their potty training too so this makes it exciting for them to pick out their own underpants!
Published 2 months ago by Sweet Pea
5.0 out of 5 stars
A corny, but fun book if you have a dinosaur lover in your house!
Corny story, but our 3 year old grandson loved it. Very cute illustrations and fun art work throughout the book. Read more
Published 4 months ago by kathaleen ledvina
4.0 out of 5 stars
Silly but amusing to the preschool age....
As other reviewers mentioned, this book is rather silly because it's about dinosaurs getting into fights over underwear. However, my four kids find it funny and amusing. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Book Worm
4.0 out of 5 stars
Funny, cute story
Dinosaur anything are a hit around here, so this book was set up for success. The story is super cute and my boys giggle everytime I ad the word, "underpants!"
Published 5 months ago by LB
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Story!
This is a great little story for kids who love dinosaurs and are learning to wear big-boy underwear & use the potty!!!
Published 5 months ago by Elizabeth A Hruska
4.0 out of 5 stars
My son loves this book!
This is a fun book, my son is 2 and really enjoys the art work and funny story. It does actually rhyme, a lot of reviewers say it doesn't but I feel that it does follow a tone... Read more
Published 5 months ago by R. Fackrell
4.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome kids book.
My 4 year old grandson loved the book. He loves to read and this was something he thought was amusing. I'm sure by now he can read the book to me.
Published 6 months ago by Randi Powell
