Dinosaur books isn't exactly a book topic you come across everyday, and it's a fairly small genre, let's face it, but there are some really great ones out there. And, since Alex decided to introduce me to one of them this week, I'm going to introduce you to a few more of my favorites.
It wouldn't be a list of dinosaur books if I didn't include Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton. They're the first ones anyone thinks of (mainly because of the movies) and there's a good reason they've become literature staples. They're intense and interesting and exciting and just plain fun to read.
Tea Rex by Molly Idle is one I actually came across just recently at my job. It's a children's picture book about a T-Rex coming to a tea party and the proper manners you should have when having a dinosaur at your house. It's an adorable book and incredibly well illustrated and, I think, subtly teaches something like manners without beating the kid over the head with it. Since the book is being so silly about the whole thing, the kid reading it doesn't feel like they're being talked down to. They just think it's a funny book about dinosaurs.
You can't have dinosaurs without a little bit of humor somewhere. All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen is a short little picture book that starts out with a dinosaur saying "All my friends are dead" and the second page has a picture of an old person saying, "Most of my friends are dead." You can guess where it goes from there.
Those are just a few of the dinosaur based books out there. What are your favorites?
It wouldn't be a list of dinosaur books if I didn't include Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton. They're the first ones anyone thinks of (mainly because of the movies) and there's a good reason they've become literature staples. They're intense and interesting and exciting and just plain fun to read.
Tea Rex by Molly Idle is one I actually came across just recently at my job. It's a children's picture book about a T-Rex coming to a tea party and the proper manners you should have when having a dinosaur at your house. It's an adorable book and incredibly well illustrated and, I think, subtly teaches something like manners without beating the kid over the head with it. Since the book is being so silly about the whole thing, the kid reading it doesn't feel like they're being talked down to. They just think it's a funny book about dinosaurs.
You can't have dinosaurs without a little bit of humor somewhere. All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen is a short little picture book that starts out with a dinosaur saying "All my friends are dead" and the second page has a picture of an old person saying, "Most of my friends are dead." You can guess where it goes from there.
Those are just a few of the dinosaur based books out there. What are your favorites?
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