Dinos (Touch-and-Feel Tower)

by Patricia Hegarty, Carlo Beranek (Illustrator)

Overview

Follow the dinosaurs as they stomp through the swamp and fly through the sky in this quirky touch-and-feel book.

Take a trip back in time and meet a group of dinosaurs (and a flying reptile) as they roam the Earth! Stomp by the swamp with Ankylosaurus, search for plants to eat with Stegosaurus, and soar high in the sky with Pterodactyl. Each spread features a die-cut, touch-and-feel element that is positioned vertically and is visible on the cover and throughout the book. Includes pronunciation guides for the dinosaurs' names.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680106091
Publisher:	Tiger Tales.
Publication date:	03/03/2020
Series:	Touch-and-Feel Tower
Pages:	14
Sales rank:	1,022,025
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	AD430L (what's this?)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Patricia Hegarty began working in children's publishing more years ago than she cares to remember! As an editor she has worked on titles ranging from atlases to animal pop-ups, craft kits to crazy mazes, and sticker books to secret diaries.

Carlo Beranek has always wanted to be a children's illustrator but began his career as a graphic designer many moons ago. Carlo lives in Rotterdam - a hip place in The Netherlands. From a young age Carlo has always loved to draw; to now have his hobby become a career, he feels extremely blessed. Carlo wants the books he creates to be very personal and fun. He particularly loves how children can go over them repeatedly and still find them enjoyable.

Editorial Reviews

2020-03-25
Stacked touch-and-feel elements provide the primary interest in yet another cartoony dinosaur book for toddlers.

Fourteen double-page scenes present five stylized, smiling dinosaurs and one pterosaur, each depicted tail or wing first, with a turn of the page required to reveal the bulk of the beast. Each reptilian limb features a textured surface that invites the touch of little hands. The cover and all but the final two pages have die-cut windows that offer a preview of each rectangular touch-and-feel surface, arranged one above another. The rhymed text is light on information, though every couplet identifies one notable trait of each dinosaur. The opening tableau sets the scene: “Let’s all go on a journey to a different time and place, / When dinosaurs ruled the earth. What dangers will we face?” A long blue tail with a club at the end stretches across both pages, and the text suggests, “Let’s follow the trail of this spiky tail....” The tail’s owner, pictured on the following page, is Ankylosaurus (“... look at her spikes— / With armor like that, she can do what she likes!”). Ankylosaurus studies another tail, as the text demands, “ ‘Stomp, stomp!’ Who’s by the swamp?” The owner of that tail is Stegosaurus, who notices yet another tail, and so on. The follow-the-tail device provides a fun peekaboo element to the proceedings. The bright colors and pop-art prehistoric backgrounds are delightful, but Triceratops is one horn short.

Adequate dino diversion for tots. (Board book. 1-4)

Kirkus Reviews