Dino-Thanksgiving

by Lisa Wheeler, Barry Gott (Illustrator)

Overview

Celebrate Thanksgiving Dino-Style!

Follow along as dinos travel over the river and through the woods to join together with family. They enjoy favorite activities, including a corn maze, a televised parade with giant balloon creations, and of course a football game! The dinos share in not one but two feasts―one for the carnivores and another for the veggie-saurs. Join in the fun as the dinos find much to be thankful for on this special holiday!

Dinosaurs big and small gather to decorate, eat, and even compete in party festivities like only prehistoric carnivores and herbivores would. Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott—creators of the enormously popular Dino-Sports picture books—team up to create celebrations of epic proportions!

"A delightful holiday read-aloud for dinosaur devotees."―Booklist

"This glimpse of prehistoric reptiles giving thanks should entertain young dinosaur fans."―Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512403183
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Series:	Dino-Holidays
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	438,755
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	7 - 8 Years

About the Author

Lisa Wheeler is the award-winning author of the Dino-Sports and Dino-Holidays books. When she isn't running around the country visiting schools, standing at podiums, and eating airport snacks, she resides in Michigan.

Barry Gott lives in Ohio and has illustrated many children's books, including all of the Dino-Sports and Dino-Holidays books.

Editorial Reviews

09/21/2020

In the latest installment of the Dino-Holidays series, a jaunty rhyme scheme (“Out back, little cousins play:/ Ping-pong, tag, and lawn croquet./ Raptor helps them fly a kite./ They’re building up an appetite!”) and bright digital illustrations depict dinosaurs coming together in chaotic community to observe Thanksgiving. The dinos, it turns out, celebrate much the same way humans do: visiting family; watching the annual Thanksgiving parade and football games; cooking and eating a variety of dishes, including “turkey, stuffing, pie, and more”; and gathering around a bonfire with their community. Colorful typography emphasizes the names of dinosaurs based on their species (Compy, Tricera, Pteros, etc.), though the full names of species are never clarified. While the holiday’s grim origins are largely omitted, aside from a parade balloon wearing a Puritan’s hat, the mention of football team “the Redscales” strikes a problematic note. Even so, this glimpse of prehistoric reptiles giving thanks should entertain young dinosaur fans. Ages 5–9. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"[T]his glimpse of prehistoric reptiles giving thanks should entertain young dinosaur fans."—Publishers Weekly

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