BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL - ADVISABLE
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
Remi and Toucan travel back in time looking for a Dinosaur. But each creature they find isn't actually a dinosaur; some are closely related to dinosaurs, and others are reptiles or amphibians, but they have features that don't match, so each creature tells Remi "I'm not a Dinosaur!" Finally they find some dinosaurs, and Toucan has a surprise.
The introduction begins in verse and continues except when the characters talk. I suppose this makes it more fun as a read-aloud, but I found it makes the text clunky. The identification pages are nice though (and not in verse) - telling the characteristics of each NOT a dinosaur and making a comparison to living animals in our time. It also identifies why they aren't a dinosaur. The last identification is for a generic dinosaur and teaches the characteristics to look for when identifying a dinosaur,
Lisa Librarian
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