How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Room? [Board book]

Jane Yolen (Author), Mark Teague (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2004 | Age Range: 3 - 5 years | Series: How Do Dinosaurs... | Lexile Measure: 500L (What's this?)

The bestselling, award-winning team of Yolen and Teague present their second original dinosaur board book, a playful "how-to" tale about making a mess and then cleaning it up.

Come along for some BIG fun as your favorite dinosaurs learn to pick up and put away their toys. How do dinosaurs clean their rooms? With trash cans and dusters and brooms!
Now Jane Yolen's playful, read-aloud text and Mark Teague's hilarious illustrations show your own little dinosaurs just how fun and easy it can be. Brimming with the same infectious humor as the other HOW DO DINOSAURS tales, this new board book is a perfect companion to the immensely popular picture books and a great baby gift as well.

Product Details

• Age Range: 3 - 5 years
  
• Board book: 12 pages
• Publisher: Blue Sky Press; BRDBK edition (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439649501
• ISBN-13: 978-0439649506
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #12 in Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Health > Personal Hygiene
  • #19 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Dinosaurs
  • #29 in Books > Children's Books > Social Situations > Manners

Editorial Reviews

Review

Praise for 'How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?': 'The message is useful!while the illustrations have detail and characterisation to savour.' Children's Book of the Week, The Sunday Times Praise for 'How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?': 'Children will find these poorly dinosaurs and their families really funny! The full-page illustrations are fantastic, too.' BBC Parenting 'This is an ingenious book that will get your little ones behaving perfectly when they're ill.' Baby & You 'A perfect get-well book.' Junior Praise for 'How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?': 'This combines an enchanting rhyme with retro-looking illustrations.' Father's Quarterly --This text refers to an alternate Board book edition.

About the Author

Jane Yolen is the beloved author of more than four hundred books for children and adults, including award-winning picture books, fiction, and poetry. Her How Do Dinosaurs books have sold millions of copies and are international bestsellers. She regularly travels the globe speaking and teaching. Jane lives in Western Massachusetts with her children and grandchildren, and she also lives in St. Andrews, Scotland. You can also visit her at www.janeyolen.com.

Mark Teague is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator whose books include the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling How Do Dinosaurs... series, the LaRue series, FIREHOUSE!, FUNNY FARM, and many other humorous picture books. Mark lives in New York state with his wife and their two daughters.

Product Details

• Age Range: 3 - 5 years
  
• Board book: 12 pages
• Publisher: Blue Sky Press; BRDBK edition (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439649501
• ISBN-13: 978-0439649506
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #12 in Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Health > Personal Hygiene
  • #19 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Dinosaurs
  • #29 in Books > Children's Books > Social Situations > Manners

More About the Author

Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. The distinguished author of more than 170 books, Jane Yolen is a person of many talents. When she is not writing, Yolen composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is the busy wife of a university professor, the mother of three grown children, and a grandmother. Active in several organizations, Yolen has been on the Board of Directors of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1986 to 1988, is on the editorial board of several magazines, and was a founding member of the Western New England Storytellers Guild, the Western Massachusetts Illustrators Guild, and the Bay State Writers Guild. For twenty years, she ran a monthly writer's workshop for new children's book authors. In 1980, when Yolen was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Our Lady of the Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts, the citation recognized that "throughout her writing career she has remained true to her primary source of inspiration--folk culture." Folklore is the "perfect second skin," writes Yolen. "From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world." Folklore, she believes, is the universal human language, a language that children instinctively feel in their hearts. All of Yolen's stories and poems are somehow rooted in her sense of family and self. The Emperor and the Kite, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1983 for its intricate papercut illustrations by Ed Young, was based on Yolen's relationship with her late father, who was an international kite-flying champion. Owl Moon, winner of the 1988 Caldecott Medal for John Schoenherr's exquisite watercolors, was inspired by her husband's interest in birding. Yolen's graceful rhythms and outrageous rhymes have been gathered in numerous collections. She has earned many awards over the years: the Regina Medal, the Kerlan Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Society of Children's Book Writers Award, the Mythopoetic Society's Aslan Award, the Christopher Medal, the Boy's Club Jr. Book Award, the Garden State Children's Book Award, the Daedalus Award, a number of Parents' Choice Magazine Awards, and many more. Her books and stories have been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Afrikaans, !Xhosa, Portuguese, and Braille. With a versatility that has led her to be called "America's Hans Christian Andersen," Yolen, the child of two writers, is a gifted and natural storyteller. Perhaps the best explanation for her outstanding accomplishments comes from Jane Yolen herself: "I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told."

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Helps the Dinosaur Lover Become a Cleaning Lover March 10, 2005

By Julie Peters Akey

Format:Board book

I think all little boys eventually go through a dinosaur stage. Mine are three and are just beginning to like them. They could use some encouragement to help them put away their toys and clean up after themselves though. I think this book has both things. It shows a variety of dinosaurs being good role models and straightening up thier rooms, putting toys away, and putting dirty clothes in the hamper, etc.. It's appropriate for children ages 3-5. The illustrations are nice and realistic, except the "kids" are dinosaurs living in people houses. It's cute and it's a board book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Lives up to the standard set by the bigger books January 29, 2008

By S. Styles

Format:Board book|Amazon Verified Purchase

The full-size "How Do Dinosaurs..." books (Eat Their Food, Go To Bed, Get Well Soon, Go To School) are wonderful and fun, and this book follows in that mold. The story doesn't seem much shorter than in the bigger books, and has the same great rhyming cadence even though the words are more than the usual one-syllable words. It is fun for parents to read as well as children!

The illustrations seem to be about as detailed as the bigger books, as well. They are just scaled down versions. Of course I miss all the dinosaurs pictured in the endpapers of the bigger books, but the board books are more portable for the car, etc. and not as easily damaged.

We also got the board book "How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends" and like it as well. However, "How Do Dinosaurs Count To Ten" and "How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors" are our least favorite books in the series.

My son is 18 months old and we started him with these books at about a year old. They are his favorites! He loves to pick out the small details he recognizes (toy trucks & balls, the dog or cat, etc.). And he definitely cares from one day to the next which one we pick out to read - they don't all seem the same to him. He likes some of the dinosaurs better than others, some of the stories better, etc. Great series.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Dinosaurs get the job done every time! August 16, 2005

By Toes

Format:Board book|Amazon Verified Purchase

For dinosaur lovers, book lovers, or those who struggle with cleaning, this book works. Kids who love How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight will love this one as well-a great substitute when bedtime is looming and time is short. Cute pictures, cute story in a sturdy board book format for the rough and tumble set.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Cute "How to Clean Up" Book for Dinosaur Lovers July 4, 2010

By Sherry Ellis VINE™ VOICE

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How does a dinosaur clean up his room? "Does he stick all his teddy bears under his bed, or shove them all into his closet instead?" Maybe my kids do, but not these tidy little dinosaurs! Told in charming rhyme, How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms first shows kids what not to do, and then shows them what they should do to clean up properly.

As with the rest of the "How Do Dinosaurs..." series, the illustrations are terrific. The names of the dinosaurs are included on every page, for those budding scientists who wish to know what they are called. The antics of these lovable reptiles will keep children giggling and wanting to read it again, and again, and again...

My children ages five and eight really like this book. I like it too because it's a fun way to teach kids how to clean up. It's a great addition to any child's library. I highly recommend it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars KIds love it June 9, 2006

By Roland G. Martinez

Format:Board book|Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought this on a whim because my children love dinosaurs right now (just like all kids I guess). It's become a bedtime favorite of theirs.

Great pictures and easy to read words for my oldest who is learning to sound out words. I'd highly recommend this book

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This Mom loves everything the dinosaurs do! February 18, 2010

By Mary R. Navulur

Format:Board book|Amazon Verified Purchase

I am so happy with all the dinosaur books, my kids think they are funny and I give huge praise to anything that will get my kids to do tasks they might otherwise hate doing. A little side note the book "How do dinosaurs eat their food" actually got my daughter to eat BROCOLLI!! Come on how great is that?!?!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful for helping kids learn how to tidy up! December 4, 2009

By T. McQueen

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I love all the books in this series and this one is no exception. Great illustration and teaches a valuable life lesson.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars My little dinosaur now cleans her room November 11, 2009

By Anthony J. Lascola

Format:Board book|Amazon Verified Purchase

This book was a total break through. Our 2 year old now wants to clean her room. And while she does it, she ROARS!!! like a dinosaur. It is the bestest most cutest little thing in the whole wide world.