Never Show a T. rex a Book

by Rashmi Sirdeshpande, Diane Ewen (Illustrator)

Overview

Supremely silly, fabulously funny, and wholly heartwarming – a book to celebrate the power of books and imagination, a book to be read again and again!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684641598
Publisher:	Kane Miller
Publication date:	01/01/2021
Series:	Never .
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	405,789
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 11.50(h) x 0.44(d)
Age Range:	2 - 6 Years

Editorial Reviews

Mom Read It “Giggle-worthy, with illustrations that show the power of books exploding all over the spreads, Never Show a T-Rex a Book! is all about imagination and embracing the fun of reading.

From the Publisher

2020-12-25
When a little girl checks out a book about dinosaurs from the library, she starts to wonder what it would be like if she shared her book with a T. rex.

The protagonist, a girl of color, assumes that the T. rex will fall in love with books and, consequently, will ask to learn how to read. In the protagonist’s imagination, this leads to an If You Give a Mouse a Cookie–like series of humorous situations in which the T. rex becomes a bookworm whose obsessive reading habit leads her to explore careers ranging from architecture and art to medicine. Eventually, the T. rex is elected prime minister. Her ascent to the United Kingdom’s highest office (this is a British import) results in a flurry of changes, including a campaign to educate all of her dinosaur friends. Suddenly, dinosaurs take over the entire country—and all because the protagonist showed one T. rex one book! This whimsical picture book’s illustrations burst with color, movement, and detail, and are a true delight. The wacky storyline, related in the second person, is great fun to read out loud. That said, the plot is more silly than suspenseful, and the narrative arc falls a bit flat at the end. Human characters depicted have a variety of skin tones and hair types, and the protagonist has dark skin and textured hair.

An entertainingly zany endorsement of the power of reading. (Picture book. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews