Sunday, April 6, 2014

If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur (5.13.14)

I read If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur by Linda Bailey, illustrator Colin Jack
I received a free ARC from Random House of Canada through NetGalley
3.5 stars

 


What could you do with a dinosaur? Use it for a snowplay, a diving board, or a can opener? Possibly. Some dinosaurs make great bookmarks. Some don't make good kites. Many dinosaurs could do many different things. But if you don't have a dinosaur, say you have a kangaroo, then what will you be able to do with that?

I love the illustrations in this book. They are colorful and fun yet pretty simple. I find them very attractive. The story is somewhat cute, but not that exciting to me. I don't think kids will be entertained by it. There isn't anything that really happens, and the end is very anticlimactic. If it had something catchy that happened to end it, that would have helped. It is not a bad book, just not one that I think will really catch the attention of small children, and I won't be reading it in story time.

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