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How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?

Jane Yolen

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Total reviews: 128 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Buy this book in hardcover, not as a board book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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We got a couple of books in the Dinosaurs series as board books from my coworker, and overall my daughter (22 months at the time of this review) liked them, but the hardcovers are simply gorgeous with large, detailed and brilliant pictures. I got this book in the library, and Anna wanted to read it several times in a row (not to mention every night since then). I plan to assemble the whole series of hardcovers for her over time, since I see these books having a long life in her development from a bright toddler to a curious child.

Great book for girls too! 5 out of 5 stars.
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My daughter, who is not quite three, loves this book. In fact this book has started an infatuation with dinosaurs. She wants me to read it to her all the time and the illustrations are awesome.

Dinosaurs vs. Boys 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is absolutely adorable! Part of me is rather suspicious that these dinosaurs are actually projections of small boys, but I have no real proof. This once again proves that Yolen still has the talent for churning out tales for children.

Editorial Review:

Featuring ten sleepy dinosaurs, this adorable picture book from prize-winning writer Jane Yolen and best-selling illustrator Mark Teague celebrates the funny, endearing, naughty bedtime behavior of young children... and young dinosaurs.

How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends (How Do Dinosaurs)

Jane Yolen

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

great book 5 out of 5 stars.
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My son is an only child who recently started day care. This book has really helped to teach him how to behave with the other children at daycare.

How Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends 5 out of 5 stars.
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My grandson loves the entire series of the How Do Dinosaur by Jane Yolen . We read them everyday.

Fun story & teaches too! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a great addition to the series. It takes kids through what not to do and then teaches them in the How Do Dinosaurs sing song story about what to do to play well with friends.

Editorial Review:

What if a dinosaur's friends come to play? Does he mope, does he pout if he can't get his way? Does he hide all his dump trucks, refusing to share? Does he throw his friends' coloring books up in the air? Time and time again, children are told to "play nice." This brilliantly illustrated board book is packed with rhymes that will teach children how. Mark Teague's laugh-aloud illustrations, along with Jane Yolen's playful text, will show children that "playing nice" can be easy and fun. Perfect for parents to read aloud with their children, this book is as humorous as it is instructive.

Owl Moon

Jane Yolen

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Total reviews: 57 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Lasts and Lasts 5 out of 5 stars.
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I read to my children every night, religiously. This is one of a very few books that we are happy to pick up and re-read. They enjoyed it when they were 3 and 5, and they still enjoy it when they're now 7 and 9.

As an added bonus for fathers, the theme is about little things we might share with our children that leave a lifelong impression. My dream is that I am creating one or more lasting legacies with my children.

Beautiful story 5 out of 5 stars.
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I used this book in my classroom as an example for my students to write thier own story. My 3rd and 4th graders loved the story and it worked great for the lesson I was teaching.

Editorial Review:

Among the greatest charms of children is their ability to view a simple activity as a magical adventure. Such as a walk in the woods late at night. Jane Yolen captures this wonderment in a book whose charm rises from its simplicity. "It was late one winter night, long past my bedtime, when Pa and I went owling." The two walked through the woods with nothing but hope and each other in a journey that will fascinate many a child. John Schoenherr's illustrations help bring richness to the countryside adventure. The book won the 1988 Caldecott Medal.

How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?

Jane Yolen

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Total reviews: 23 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

great book 5 out of 5 stars.
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My son loves dinosaurs this book really helps me to teach him how to properly clean his room.

we love the dinosaurs! :D 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought all of the Jane Yolen books I could find in here and had them shipped to my daughter for my grandchildren. She said that they are helping a lot and that the kids love them...and the kids told me they LOVE dinosaurs over the phone! :D The three year old is autistic and had a meltdown if anyone cleaned her room or moved anything...now, with the help of this book...she cleans it up with the dinosaurs ideas and she has no problem with the dinosaurs telling her what to do LOL. I do remember when my own daughter was a child, having Bert and Ernie puppets talk to her and tell her what they would like done and how well it worked. Well, this is the same theory and really helping with an autistic child especially.

Editorial Review:

Come along for some BIG fun as your favorite dinosaurs learn to pick up and put away their toys. How do dinosaurs clean their rooms? With trash cans and dusters and brooms!Now Jane Yolen's playful, read-aloud text and Mark Teague's hilarious illustrations show your own little dinosaurs just how fun and easy it can be. Brimming with the same infectious humor as the other HOW DO DINOSAURS tales, this new board book is a perfect companion to the immensely popular picture books and a great baby gift as well.

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?

Jane Yolen

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Total reviews: 32 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Great book/series!!!! A+++++++ 5 out of 5 stars.
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These books are GREAT. My son is a little over three and he LOVES these books and memorized them almost immediately. I love when he reads them back to me. I highly recommend for any dinosaur lover!! I own three of these books and can;t wait to get another!!!!

Great for little dinosaurs, too 5 out of 5 stars.
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My son has loved this series since he was 12 months old, and he is now 19 months. I thought the books might be too old for him, but he loves the rhyming and loves looking at the pictures of the different dinosaurs. He picks out little details like trucks, teddy bears, or the cat and dog over and over again, and has his favorite dinosaur (the one eating pancakes on the front of this book).

Whether he understands the lessons about mealtime and bedtime, I can't tell for sure, but we'll get them in early since he makes us read him all of these books just about every night! We have ...Eat Their Food, ...Go To Bed, ...Get Well Soon, and ...Go to School. The board books ...Play with their Friends and ...Clean their Rooms are good also. The counting and colors ones aren't as good.

Editorial Review:

How does a dinosaur eat all his food?Does he burp, does he belch, or make noises quite rude?Does he pick at his cereal, throw down his cup,hoping to make someone else pick it up? Just like kids, dinosaurs have a difficult time learning to behave at the table. However, with a little help from Mom and Dad, these young dinosaurs eat all before them with smiles and goodwill. As in their previous books, Yolen and Teague capture children's rambunctious natures with playful read-aloud verse and wonderfully amusing pictures.

How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors

Jane Yolen

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

As good as the other "How Do Dinosaurs..." books 5 out of 5 stars.
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My three year old likes all these books. They aren't too dull to read either for the parent.

Favorite book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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We love these dinosaurs books. They are for kids of all ages and for boy OR girl. They are so cute and teach a lesson. This one is about colors and though it isn't my favorite of the series, it is very good. I love the pictures and so does my daughter

great starter book 5 out of 5 stars.
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My son loves the dinosaur board books. Although they are shorter in length than the hard cover books, they are great for little ones to handle. They story rhymes and keeps a consistant flow, which seems to interest our 14 month old. We own several and I would recommend them all!

Editorial Review:

Dinosaur colors start with red: A red fire truck stuck under the bed, A purple towel left on the floor, A green sign taped to the closet door, The third board book by the bestselling, award-winning duo Jane Yolen and Mark Teague focuses on one of the most fun concepts learned in childhood: colors. Packed with vibrant illustrations of dinosaurs drawing, painting, and playing, this book will captivate and inspire children as they learn their colors.

How Do Dinosaurs Count To Ten?

Jane Yolen

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Not the same as the big books 3 out of 5 stars.
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We were a little disappointed with this book and a couple of the other board books in this series. Our one-year-old son LOVES the full size "How Do Dinosaurs" story books, but he hardly pays attention to the board books.

First of all, the words and rhymes aren't as clever. Maybe the concept of counting or colors just isn't as good of a material as going to bed, eating your food, or going to the doctor.

Second, the books are short and the artwork is very scaled down and much simpler. My son loves the artwork in the bigger books but the white background in these is kind of boring.

Maybe time will tell, but he is getting past the board book stage and I am just not sure that these books will hold the attention of kids who are at an age for learning colors or numbers. I wish there was a full-size version, and I wish I had known the content of the board books was not as good as the big books. Now YOU do!

Editorial Review:

Come along for some BIG fun as your favorite dinosaurs delight young readers with their playful antics. How do dinosaurs count to ten? Over and over and over again!This brand new board book format brings the gigantic humor of bestselling, award-winning team Jane Yolen and Mark Teague to the youngest readers, helping them learn to count from one to ten with a simple, rhyming text and laugh-out-loud illustrations! A perfect companion book to the other HOW DO DINOSAURS tales, and a great baby gift as well.

How Do Dinosaurs Go To School?

Jane Yolen

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

BUYER BEWARE 1 out of 5 stars.
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THIS IS A SOFT TOY NOT A BOOK.THIS IS NOT EXPLAINED IN THE DESCRIPTION ABOVE OR ANY OF THE REVIEWS HERE.

this book is awesome 4 out of 5 stars.
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My three years old was starting preschool, so I wanted a book on behaving in school, sharing and being loving with your classmates. This book is great on these topics.

Cute Story 5 out of 5 stars.
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I thought this was a very cute book. The rhyming is memorable and the illustrations are well-done.

Great visuals, mediocre writing 4 out of 5 stars.
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My two-and-half-year-old daughter loves these "How-To" dinosaur books. How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? was the first one I got for her, which she was hooked on and triggered me to buy the other three in the series (big format ones). The book is very educational and she can memorize and articulate all the 10 dinosaurs names provided in the book. However, while the illustrations are highly entertaining to a toddler, the language, like that in the other books in the series, is quite lackluster. It would be ideal if the book also shed literary value and were enjoyable to read aloud to a child as well.

Editorial Review:

Everyone's favorite dinosaurs are back--and this time they are going to school. More fun dinosaur antics await. These prehistoric pupils are in a class of their own!

As in their previous books, Yolen and Teague capture children's rambunctious natures with playful read-aloud verse and wonderfully amusing pictures.

The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics)

Jane Yolen

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Total reviews: 270 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

If It's Not Required Reading, It Should Be ... 5 out of 5 stars.
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The Devil's Arithmetic is a remarkable book about a horrid event in our history. For naysayers, it provides a mountain of evidence that must be heralded. For the rest of us, it is a reminder that we must in fact remember the atrocities of the Holocaust so that they are not repeated.

Yolen weaves together the tales of Hannah/Chaya in this historically fictional book. Hannah, a modern-day teenager, is 'tired of remembering'. Her family's rituals at Passover bore her and like any typical teen, would rather hang out with friends. That is, until she is chosen during the ritual, to open the door to Elijah the Prophet. When she does, she steps back in time and morphs into Chaya, a young girl who eventually is sent to one of the dreaded concentration camps. While Hannah/Chaya stuggles with the reconciliation of what she knows from the future and what she is living in 1942, the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's Final Solution surround her.

If this is not required reading at your school, it most certainly should be. I know I will be recommending it to my students when we return to school in August.

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Hannah thinks tonight’s Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await.

How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?

Jane Yolen

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Total reviews: 32 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Following up their bestseller How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, Caldecott Medal winner Jane Yolen and illustrator Mark Teague have penned this instructive lesson on dinosaur health care. Each double-page spread features one enormous dinosaur looking wan and sniffly but mostly cranky, petulant, ornery, sullen, and disagreeable. The human moms and dads are visibly worried and/or frustrated by their sick dinos behaving badly. Witness the nice lady dragging her gigantic Styracosaurus out of the elevator and across the hall to the doctor's office: "What if a dinosaur goes to the doc? Does he drag all his feet till his mom is in shock?" The look on this mom's face will be familiar to anyone who's ever forcibly moved a child, who seems to have suddenly gained a million pounds, from one place to another. And of course, it turns out that dinosaurs don't misbehave when they're sick: "He drinks lots of juice, and he gets lots of rest. He's good at the doctor's, 'cause doctors know best."

The rhymes are somewhat forced, especially toward the end of the book, but Teague's marvelous paintings are bright and expressive throughout. Each dinosaur is cleverly labeled, and these aren't your run-of-the-mill dinos; dinosaur-obsessed little ones will crow over Parasaurolophus, Euoplocephalus, and Tuojiangosaurus. They'll also learn a little something about how to behave when they're sick. --Jennifer Lindsay