Dinosaur!

When a boy’s toy dinosaurs come to life, a whole new world is created in his bathtub. No words are needed as the adventure grows and then recedes when his mother brings him back to the real world. Black lines on crisp white pages effectively convey the child’s fantasy and his reality. Dinosaur names appear on the endpaper to the book.

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Age Level:

6-9

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Age Level:

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Fire trucks fascinate Matt, so much so that he starts and ends his day thinking about them. When he imagines actually becoming one, he zooms around to put out fire and save his community actually in his house and is brought back to being a little boy by the cozy smell of pancakes. Crisp black lines with touches of red are used in this imaginative excursion, which also invites readers to count related objects from one to ten. The boy has another imaginative adventure in Trucks Trucks Trucks (1998) where trucks that haul, lift, and more grow in size in his room.

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Age Level:

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Peter Sís

Age Level:

6-9

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Age Level:

3-6

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Age Level:

3-6

Genre:

Fiction

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Age Level:

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Age Level:

6-9

Genre:

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Age Level:

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Genre:

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Age Level:

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Genre:

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