What If You Had T. Rex Teeth?: And Other Dinosaur Parts

by Sandra Markle, Howard McWilliam (Illustrator)

Overview

If you could have any dinosaur body part, which would you choose?

What if you woke up one morning and you had sprouted a dinosaur body part overnight? What If You Had T. rex Teeth? — the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series — explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw that you had become part dino! From a Velociraptor's sharp sickle-tipped toes to a T. rex's giant curved teeth, and from the body armor of an Ankylosaurus to the long neck of a Brachiosaurus — discover what it would be like if you had one of these wild dinosaur parts! Readers will also learn what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur and why they aren't still around today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338271393
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	12/26/2018
Series:	Scholastic What If You Had... ? Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	AD850L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Sandra Markle is the author of more than 200 children's books, which have won numerous awards, including Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, IRA/CBC Children's Choice, NSTA/CBC Outstanding Trade Books for Children, NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended, and ALA Notable Books for Children. She lives in Florida.
Howard McWilliam is the illustrator of Dinosaurs Christmas by Jerry Pallotta,I Need My Monsterby Amanda Noll, When a Dragon Moves In by Jodi Moore, and the What If You Had...? series by Sandra Markle. He lives in Kingston Upon Thames, England, with his wife, Rebecca. For more information, go to howardmcwilliam.com.

Editorial Reviews

05/10/2019

PreS-Gr 3-This new entry in the "What If…?" series presents scenarios that depict human bodies sufficiently fused with dinosaur parts rather than the animal hairs, noses, and tails of its predecessors. Eleven dinosaurs grace the colorful, lively pages side by side with a cartoony kid flaunting the chosen part, such as a windsurfing child sporting a Spinosaurus sail-back or a ravenous and victorious child at a pie-eating contest with an Edmontosaurus's jaws. Along the way, the brief text includes a paragraph about each creature, a fact box, a photo of a relevant fossil, and a sentence describing how the starring body part might be useful to a child. The book ends with praise for "people parts" because "they are exactly what you need to be the one and only you." The narrative is followed by two pages of factoids and a time line. VERDICT A fun read peppered with information, this title is sure to inspire some madcap discussions in a classroom.-Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY

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