I Thought I Saw a Dinosaur!

by Templar Books, Lydia Nichols (Illustrator)

Overview

Hide-and-seek fun with sturdy sliders!

This silly but stylish slider book is sure to give little ones a giggle. They'll love joining in a game of hide-and-seek as they move the sliders to reveal the dinosaur hiding in every scene. Is it behind the sofa? Or in the shower? Just push the slider to find out! With beautiful artwork from Lydia Nichols, the whole family will enjoy reading and playing with this fresh new novelty series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763699451
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	04/24/2018
Series:	I Thought I Saw
Pages:	10
Sales rank:	195,386
Product dimensions:	6.37(w) x 6.31(h) x 0.74(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Lydia Nichols is an illustrator and designer. By day she doodles for Google and by night she draws anthropomorphic objects and animals. Lydia Nichols lives in Oakland, California.

Editorial Reviews

The combination of hide-and-seek and sliders to manipulate with fanciful dinosaurs should guarantee an audience for this board book.
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2018-05-23
The combination of hide-and-seek and sliders to manipulate with fanciful dinosaurs should guarantee an audience for this board book. Beginning with the front cover, a smiling green dinosaur is hiding in plain sight in every picture: in a window, behind a sofa, in the shower, in bed, in the freezer. On each page the titular refrain is repeated, followed by a question that hints at where the dinosaur will be found. It doesn't hurt success that the dinosaur doesn't really fit in its hiding places. Toddlers will quickly find the clearly marked slider that confirms their guess, sliding the head of one out from behind the sofa or pulling back the shower curtain to reveal another. The book ends with a final affirmation: "I knew I saw a dinosaur. There it is!" The slider on that page makes the dinosaur's head nod up and down. The format is repeated in the companion volume, I Thought I Saw a Lion, with the lion hiding in a restaurant, costume shop, library, and beauty shop. Digitally produced drawings in a retro palette are reminiscent of mid-20th-century printmaking and folk art. Except for a brown-skinned waiter and a brown-skinned customer getting her straight brown hair cut in the beauty parlor in Lion, the people in both books are white. Unfortunately, the sliders have a tendency to become quite loose after repeat readings and slide when the book is merely tilted.The minor flaw in the construction makes this a nonessential purchase for all but the most dino-happy tots. (Board book. 2-3)

Kirkus Reviews