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How Do Dinosaurs Show Good Manners? Cover Image Book Book

How Do Dinosaurs Show Good Manners? Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Mark Teague.

Yolen, Jane, (author.). Teague, Mark, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Join these troublesome dinosaurs as their best manners are put to task in this infectious read-aloud, a delightful new addition to Jane Yolen and Mark Teague's beloved, award-winning series! What if a dinosaur won't be polite? Maybe burps at the table and starts food fights? Watch these dinosaur children's larger-than-life antics as they navigate sharing and showing gratitude with their human family and friends. Do dinosaurs spit broccoli on the floor, hog the slide at the playground, or wreck the bathroom with their latest mud science experiment? Of course not! They share, they show kindness, and they are polite. Being courteous is an important lesson in children's lives. While learning good manners is full of its own struggles and quandaries, the payoff of hearing "please" and "thank you" is worth it. Each book in the endlessly popular How Do Dinosaurs series is a combination of childish antics followed by a gentle lesson--with over 14.5 million books in print. See if your little readers can find the names of each dinosaur, hidden on each page!

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781338363340
  • ISBN: 1338363344
  • Physical Description: 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., ©2020.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
Ages 3-5. Scholastic.
Grades K-1. Scholastic.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR LG 2 0.5 509519.
Subject: Dinosaurs > Juvenile fiction.
Etiquette > Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction.
Manners > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Stories in rhyme.
Picture books.

Available copies

  • 54 of 61 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 61 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
North Kansas City Public Library JE YOL (Text) 0001002425849 JUV Easy New Checked out 05/17/2024

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How Do Dinosaurs Show Good Manners?
How Do Dinosaurs Show Good Manners?
by Yolen, Jane; Teague, Mark (Illustrator)
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How Do Dinosaurs Show Good Manners?

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Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

A guide to better behavior--at home, on the playground, in class, and in the library. Serving as a sort of overview for the series' 12 previous exercises in behavior modeling, this latest outing opens with a set of badly behaving dinos, identified in an endpaper key and also inconspicuously in situ. Per series formula, these are paired to leading questions like "Does she spit out her broccoli onto the floor? / Does he shout 'I hate meat loaf!' while slamming the door?" (Choruses of "NO!" from young audiences are welcome.) Midway through, the tone changes ("No, dinosaurs don't"), and good examples follow to the tune of positive declarative sentences: "They wipe up the tables and vacuum the floors. / They share all the books and they never slam doors," etc. Teague's customary, humongous prehistoric crew, all depicted in exact detail and with wildly flashy coloration, fill both their spreads and their human-scale scenes as their human parents--no same-sex couples but some are racially mixed, and in one the man's the cook--join a similarly diverse set of sibs and other children in either disapprobation or approving smiles. All in all, it's a well-tested mix of oblique and prescriptive approaches to proper behavior as well as a lighthearted way to play up the use of "please," "thank you," and even "I'll help when you're hurt." Formulaic but not stale…even if it does mine previous topical material rather than expand it. (Picture book. 6-8) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.


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