What is it with kids and dinosaurs? More often than not lately I walk in and at least one kid is pretending to be a dinosaur, ala Calvin:
In any case, we’re spending the month of April learning about dinosaurs, and this is the book list I’ve come up with.
1. Dino-baseball
by Wheeler, Lisa, 1963- Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, 2010.
2. Dinosaur roar!
by Stickland, Paul. New York : Dutton Children’s Books, 1994. 1st American ed.
3. Dinosaur vs. bedtime
by Shea, Bob. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2008. 1st ed.
4. Dinosaurs, dinosaurs
by Barton, Byron. New York : Crowell, c1989.
5. Edwina, the dinosaur who didn’t know she was extinct ords and pictures
by Willems, Mo. New York : Hyperion, 2006. 1st ed.
6. How do dinosaurs say I love you?
by Yolen, Jane. New York : Blue Sky Press, c2009.
7. If the dinosaurs came back
by Most, Bernard. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1978.
8. Patrick’s dinosaurs
by Carrick, Carol. New York : Clarion Books, c1983.
9. Skippyjon Jones and the big bones
by Schachner, Judith Byron. New York : Dutton Children’s Books, c2007. 1st ed.
10. T. Rex
by French, Vivian. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2004. 1st U.S. ed.
11. The field mouse and the dinosaur named Sue
by Wahl, Jan. New York : Scholastic, 2000.
12. The littlest dinosaur
by Foreman, Michael, 1938- New York, NY : Walker, 2008.
