Dinosaurs to the Rescue!: A Guide to Protecting Our Planet (Dino Life Guides for Families) [School & Library Binding]

Laurene Krasny Brown (Author), Marc Tolon Brown (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Dino Life Guides for Families

In a young readers' guide to environmental awareness, dinosaurs explain how to help Earth's threatened environment by reducing waste, reusing items, and recycling materials.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The appealing, articulate little dinosaurs who have imparted sage advice in the Browns' Dinosaurs Alive and Well! and Dinosaurs Divorce here deliver their most critical message yet: natural resources, "gifts" to us from our planet, won't always be here if we waste or spoil them. Introducing "Slobosaurus"--a polluting, wasteful fellow--as a negative role model, the dinos instruct on the right way to live and keep our planet green. Using simple examples that will hit home, the authors show how we can save energy, reduce use of paper and plastic, find ways to reuse and recycle a wide variety of materials and "give something back" to the earth by making the outdoors clean and safe. The detailed illustrations' inherent humor, combined with a carefully distilled text, make this a forceful environmental guide for the youngest readers--and listeners. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 4-- The Browns' sensible, cavorting dinosaurs are back again, this time regaling readers with some advice on how they can rescue our ailing Earth. In this latest foray into social issues, the authors present major environmental problems with such practical, easy, and entertaining solutions that children will be enthusiastic from the very beginning. The first page introduces Slobosaurus who is ``full of excuses for why he can't use less, use things again, and give something back to the earth.'' Succeeding pages show the boorish way he reacts by tossing his empty soda can on the ground, wasting water, using electricity unwisely or unnecessarily, etc. Plants, animals, and insects, too, are given a place in this environmental treatment. Each framed watercolor cartoon is bursting with activity showing the busy, happy creatures going about their daily routines with Slobosaurus sulking somewhere in the action. He is finally convinced by the hardworking dinosaur children that his help is indeed needed because . . . ``protecting our beautiful planet is a big job. Every one of us can help!'' This author/illustrator team knows precisely how to hit the mark for young readers, and their newest venture is no exception. --Mary Lou Budd, Milford South Elementary School, OH
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• School & Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: San Val (April 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1417619988
• ISBN-13: 978-1417619986
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,463,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a great way to teach children about the environment!, March 7, 2006

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S.D. "mom_loves_books" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dinosaurs to the Rescue (Paperback)

Wow - this book was a big surprise. It was something that my kids had picked out at the library, and now we are planning to buy our own copy. With it's main character, Slobosaurus, showing children (and adults too) how we take our environment for granted, the lessons of the simple ways to correct this are great for children ages 4-8 (and even up through adults). Kids learn everything from not wasting paper to recycling to the fact that 1 gallon of water is used every minute that it is left running. The illustrations are great and only add to the book. This book is a great asset to any children's collection!

5.0 out of 5 stars FUN AND EDUCATIONAL, November 26, 2008

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This review is from: Dinosaurs To The Rescue! (Hardcover)

This book has great information for kids that teaches them how and what to recycle and other ways to save our planet. I read it to first graders and they loved it! I bought one for the teacher, the library and for my own children.