Helen Plum Library

With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Barner shakes the dust off the bones found in museums to bring dinosaurs back to life. Full-color illustrations

Summer is the best time to go outside and play! The same is true for dinosaurs in this innovative first concepts series. Readers watch dinosaurs play games, take a trip, and even hit the beach with the help of colorful illustrations that provide strong picture-text correlation to aid reading comprehension. From baseball to sand castles and a trip on the Ferris wheel, dinos love to have fun in the summer sun. This fun first concepts book is sure to...

"Before dinosaurs were big, most of them came from small eggs and were tiny but mighty babies"--

Introduces dinosaurs, describing where they lived, what they ate, and how humans uncover more information about them

"A rhyming, nonfiction picture book about how dinosaurs evolved into birds"--

A visit to a museum of natural history provides a little boy with an introduction to the habits, characteristics, and habitats of fourteen kinds of dinosaurs

"Some dinosaurs are fast. Some are tall. Some have horns and spikes! Which dinosaurs would you like to meet?" --Cover, page 4

Follow a day in the life of a Triceratops as its herd has a close encounter with the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex