Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13124 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Board book
• 12 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780439649490
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
JANE YOLEN has written more than two hundred books for children and adults, including the Caldecott Medal winner, Owl Moon. She lives in western Massachusetts and in St. Andrews, Scotland.

Customer Reviews

Lots of Fun for Your Little Dinosaur
HOW DO DINOSAURS COUNT TO TEN not only provides a way for very young children to learn to count. It also feeds into the way a kid thinks. The various dinosaurs who do the counting have human mons who cheer them on to learn. Kids will identify with the concept. A child can be a dinosaur today, and his Mom can be a person. Also Mom stays in the background making the dinosaur/child the center of attention, providing a supportive 'I can do it myself' climate. While cartoonish and playful, the pictures represent dinosaurs accurately enough to recognize them. T. Rex helps with the counting, as does Ptaradactyl, and a few others I can't spell or pronounce. But as I've learned from my 5 year-old-neighbor, the kids should be have no trouble informing the adults in their lives which dion is who. As the dinosaurs count, they play with the toys they are counting, which adds to the fun. The books themselves are sturdy and will withstand rough handling by really little tykes. They're also a convenient size for toddlers to hold. Anybody who has a junior dinosaur fan around the house should look at HOW DO DIONSAURS COUNT TO TEN.

Dino review
My son absolutely loves this book. He also has How do dinosaurs clean their rooms. These are really great books illustrated with realistic but friendly dinos doing everyday kid activities. I highly recommend them as they are fun to read for the adult as well (some books lose their charm after being read aloud for 43 days).

Not the same as the big books
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!