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  1 How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas?
Author: Yolen, Jane Illustrator: Teague, Mark
    Series: How do dinosaurs
 
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Class: Easy
Age: 3-6
Language: English
Descriptors: Picture Book
Demand: Average
LC: PZ8.3
Grade: P-1


Print Run: 100000
ISBN-13: 9780545416788
LCCN: 2012006171
Imprint: Blue Sky Press
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Pub Date: 09/01/2012
Availability: Available
List: $18.99
  Hardcover Reinforced
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm. H 12", W 9"
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Awards: Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
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TIPS Subjects: Dinosaurs
Behavior
Christmas
BISAC Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Holidays & Celebrations / Christmas & Advent
LC Subjects: Behavior, Fiction
Christmas, Fiction
Dinosaurs, Fiction
Oversize books, Specimens
Stories in rhyme
SEARS Subjects: Christmas, Fiction
Dinosaurs, Behavior, Fiction
Dinosaurs, Fiction
Stories in rhyme
Reading Programs: Accelerated Reader Level: 2.1 , Points: 0.5
Lexile Level: 450
 
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Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 09/01/2012
Just like human children, dinosaurs are excited to celebrate Christmas. These prehistoric animals are full of Christmas cheer as they wrap presents, sing carols, and decorate the tree. When Christmas Eve finally arrives, the dinosaur children have trouble falling asleep as they anticipate the excitement that the next morning will bring. 40pp., Color Ill.
Journal Reviews
BookPage | 12/01/2012
Jane Yolen and Mark Teague have a small cottage industry going with books about dinosaurs. Their two newest are sure to become family favorites: How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah? and How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas? It's fun to see how Yolen and Teague make connections between these two books (mom is knitting in both, the dinosaurs all kiss their grandparents, etc.) but still give each holiday's traditions its own spotlight. As always, these dinosaur books are more humor than lesson and are the perfect way for little people to laugh at naughtiness. 40p. BOOKPAGE, c2012.
Horn Book | 11/01/2012
Preschool, Primary. Yolen and Teague's mischievous dinos (How Do Dinosaures Say Good Night? among many others) tackle holiday traditions and observances. Both books first depict the dinosaurs (with their human parents) modeling bad behavior. Chanukah shows the creatures peeking a presents, blowing out candles, and hoarding dreidels. Christmas finds the dinos un-decorating the tree, licking candy canes, and feasting on Santa's cookies. By mid-book, in each case, the dinosaurs have settled down to demonstrate proper decorum. Bouncy rhymes and humorous illustrations--the images of vivacious large scale dinosaurs alongside the staid, rather Rockwellian humans are consistently funny--combine to make welcome entries in Yolen and Teague's Dinosaurs series and in holiday book collections. Elissa Gershowitz. 32pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2012.
Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2013
2. This series' mischievous dinos tackle holiday traditions and observances. First the dinosaurs (with human parents) model bad behavior: peeking at presents, hoarding dreidels (Chanukah); un-decorating the tree, eating Santa's cookies (Christmas). By mid-book the dinosaurs have settled down to demonstrate proper decorum. Bouncy rhymes and humorous illustrations combine to make these welcome entries in holiday book collections. Review covers these two titles: How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah? and How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas?. erg. 32pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2013.
Kirkus Reviews | 09/01/2012
Yolen and Teague extend their dinosaur franchise with this rollicking romp of rampaging dinosaurs up to their terrible tricks throughout the Christmas season. Using the familiar structure of naughty-then-nice behavior, the dinosaur crew rips open presents, knocks over decorated trees and dumps out filled stockings. When they get hungry, they eat all the Christmas cookies and lick all the candy canes. But in the calmer, concluding half, the well-behaved dinosaurs sing carols politely, help with the dishes and interact nicely with the grandparents. They even get to sleep in time for Santa's arrival. Young readers will delight in the initial wild antics, with the falling Christmas trees, flying ornaments and the brilliantly colored dinosaurs cavorting around the decorated living rooms in wild abandonment. The large trim size and double-page illustrations offer plenty of room to show off the dinosaurs in motion. Each dinosaur is identified within the illustrations as well as in humorous spot illustrations on the endpapers. What child wouldn't love to grab all the presents and lick all the candy canes one by one? Those naughty dinosaurs have the most fun, and their fans will be waiting to see what they get up to next. (Picture book. 3-7). 40pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2012.
Publishers Weekly | 09/10/2012
Continuing to follow the successful blueprint of the long-running How Do Dinosaurs books, Yolen and Teague pose the possibility of dinosaurs wreaking merry havoc on Christmas Eve. Uproarious hypotheticals--do dinosaurs rip open presents, "shake up the tree," or eat all the cookies left out for Santa?--give way to portraits of the dinos' angelic behavior in the second half. Yolen's characteristically wry verse is flawless in its rhyme and rhythm, and as in the earlier outings, the art's buttoned-up 1950s fashions and furnishings provide a comical visual contrast to the outlandish, brightly colored dinosaurs. Simultaneously available: How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah? Up to age 4. (Sept.). 40p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2012.
School Library Journal | 10/01/2012
PreS-Gr 2--Yolen and Teague add to their delightful dinosaur canon with this funny, gentle reminder of proper behavior for the most eagerly anticipated of holidays. As in previous titles, the dinosaurs have human parents and each one can be identified by the inclusion of its name in the illustrations. The 10 featured behemoths also adorn the endpapers. Enhancing the hilarity are the cats and dogs in the role of family pets bearing witness to the dinosaurs' antics--such as sneaking out of bed to peek, ripping open presents, deconstructing the tree, pre-licking candy canes, dumping out stockings, and eating Santa's cookies. Don't pass up this exuberant guide to achieving yuletide harmony.--Linda Israelson, Los Angeles Public Library. 40p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2012.
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