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1-2-3 dinosaurs bite! a prehistoric counting book / illustrated by Steve Jenkins.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781402777226 (board bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 18 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Sterling,Children's Books, c2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Cover title. On board pages. |
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| Subject: | Dinosaurs > Juvenile literature. Counting > Juvenile literature. |
Available copies
- 0 of 1 copy available at Westcoast Early Learning Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westcoast Early Learning Library | DINOSAURS (Text) | 35200000729272 | Children's Nonfiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-22 |
- Horn Book Guide Reviews : Horn Book Guide Reviews 2013 Fall
Bites taken out of the pages provide young dinosaur lovers with a tactile shiver as they count through this collection of prehistoric beasts (pronunciation guide for the five dinosaurs included). The board book's back matter includes age-appropriate information on what the dinosaurs really ate and a one-to-ten review of items within the illustrations that can be counted. An impressive introduction to nonfiction. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2012 December #2
This dinosaur counting book doesn't completely add up. Jenkins provides his signature cut-paper collage for this prehistoric outing with a text attributed to the American Museum of Natural History. Five of the page spreads feature a different dinosaur species, such as Microraptor, Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus. Readers are invited to count the ever-increasing bites on the page supposedly made by the dinosaurs (they are created by die cut). While a clever gimmick, the book design serves it poorly. The jagged bite marks are difficult to count, since other bite marks from subsequent pages show through, as well as stray images and partial lines of text. While the book lets readers count to five spread by spread, the next page rushes the counting the rest of the way to 10 with an abstract list of items to count. It is unclear what and where the "8 jagged bites that make these pages disappear..." are. The next page is a little more useful, with one sentence of dietary facts for each of the featured dinosaurs. The last spread reuses the art that has come before to give readers more items to count, but this feels like an afterthought. Four pages of backmatter are too much for a board book, and a more thoughtful design would have served the entire package better. Despite the star power here, skip this one. (Board book. 2-4) Copyright Kirkus 2012 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2012 October #5
Jenkins's characteristically detailed collages take on the ever-popular subject of dinosaurs in a board book created in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Things begin promisingly, as different dinosaurs take jagged "bites" out of each spread, counting up to five. Numbers six through 10, however, are deployed in a rush on a single page ("6 hungry dinosaurs are chewing up this book! 7 colors on this page are waiting to be gobbled up"); closing pages offer details on dinosaurs' nonbook eating habits and a second opportunity to count to 10. Simultaneously available: Spot the Animals: A Life-the-Flap Book of Colors. Ages 3â7. (Oct.)
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