Counting Dinos

by Eric Pinder, Junissa Bianda (Illustrator)

Overview

Count along with friendly dinos in this rhythmic read-aloud and simple look-and-find.

Pinder's playful verse will have readers bouncing along with each dino step as Rodrigo the Ankylosaurus and his prehistoric pals learn about their natural world and count from one to ten. With adorable illustrations and plenty to search for, kids will discover new things on each read-through, and informative back matter will provide curious readers with even more information on their favorite dinosaurs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807512814
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	10/01/2018
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD490L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Eric Pinder is the award-winning picture book author of several books including If All the Animals Came Inside, How to Build a Snow Bear, and The Perfect Pillow. He has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches at Chester College in New Hampshire.

Junissa Bianda is a children's book illustrator based in Jakarta, Indonesia. She holds a master’s degree in illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

"A particularly lively specimen. Definitely has a preschooler's number."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2018-06-25
Dinosaurs get together to count legs, arms, wings, spikes, and more.The rhymed tally starts off with a young dino named Rodrigo (properly identified, in the closing fact roundup, as an ankylosaurus) with "one tail he liked to swing for fun!" Along comes Sue (a T. Rex) with two arms and two pairs of claws, Stan (a triceratops) with three horns, and so on up to 10 little hatchlings of diverse species. In her prehistoric scenes Bianda depicts dinosaurs, early reptiles, and even a set of contemporaneous opossumlike mammals (and bumblebees flying into a wasps' nest) in bright monochrome hues, with googly eyes and (for all the scales, horns, and toothy smiles on display) distinctly toddlerish looks. She also places large numerals in strategic spots and tucks in seed cones, ferns, comets, and other prehistoric items for more counting opportunities. Dinosaur counting exercises are far from an extinct or even endangered picture-book species but this is a particularly lively specimen, and aside from a few artistic liberties, the author and illustrator both take care to keep their dino facts straight.Definitely has a preschooler's number. (Picture book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews