FROM OUR EDITORS

Eat your heart out, Mr. Clean! A house full of dinosaurs are cleaning up in this original board book from Jane Yolen and Mark Teague, creators of How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? and How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? Featuring Teague's hilarious illustrations of different reptilians shoving teddy bears under the bed, sneaking pj's behind bathroom doors, and tossing dirty clothes in the hamper, this dynamic board book teaches kids that even dinosaurs have to think about keeping their bedrooms clean. For a super silly read that'll deliver great before-bed giggles or gearing-up-for-cleaning times, this is a winner that packed with a rollicking roar!

ANNOTATION

Explains what little dinosaurs do to keep their rooms neat.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

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.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

Favorite characters and titles are now available in board book editions. Dinos delight in acting like toddlers in original board books starring the prehistoric heroes first introduced in How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark Teague. Just right for smallest hands, How DoDinosaurs Count to Ten? encourages youngsters to practice their numbers from a tyrannosaurus rex clutching his "one tattered teddy bear" to an apatosaurus reading 10 books (Teague subtly labels each terrible lizard somewhere in the drawing). The scaly stars set a good example (sort of) in How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms? as a velociraptor slides pink pajamas behind the bathroom door, and an airborne tropeognathus drops its clothes into a hamper. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot

My first inclination when I read this title was to say, "very carefully." Assuming that kids can accept the premise that dinosaurs live with a human family (Dinosaur Bob set the precedent), then this story will amuse them. First the dinosaurs try all the usual tricks when it comes to cleaning up—putting toys under the bed, stuffing them in the closet, putting dirty clothes back in the drawer with the clean ones to name a few. Then the dinosaurs contrast this misbehavior with good behavior. An euplocephalus dusts, a dilophosarus organizes his toys and a tropeognathus puts dirty clothes in a hamper. Mom and Dad are really proud and thank the little dinosaurs for doing such a great job. It is silly, but kids who love dinosaurs will have fun. In addition, they will learn the names of ten very different dinosaurs (if the reader can pronounce them all). This is a companion board book to How do Dinosaurs Count to Ten? which means young kids can learn twenty of these tongue-twisting dinosaur names. Teague has fun with the expressions, body positions and coloration of these huge and now extinct creatures. 2004, Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, Ages 1 to 3.