Dinosaurs Love Underpants [Hardcover]

Claire Freedman (Author), Ben Cort (Illustrator)

Book Description

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.

Editorial Reviews

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
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

From Booklist

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

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Aladdin (December 29, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416989382
• ISBN-13: 978-1416989387
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,757 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #46 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Dinosaurs

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A sure fire winner that misses the mark, January 19, 2010

By 

J. Prather (IN USA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Dinosaurs Love Underpants (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.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this one! Buy Aliens instead., March 27, 2010

By 

Kate T. "Educated Mom" (Wells, ME) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dinosaurs Love Underpants (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.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars dinosaurs love underpants, January 10, 2009

By 

Diane Toscano "Diane" (chatham, nj usa) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Dinosaurs Love Underpants (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.