We Love Dinosaurs

by Lucy Volpin, Lucy Volpin (Illustrator)

Overview

"Young readers will thrill to the sight of these smiling, roly-poly, brightly colored dinosaurs." — Kirkus Reviews

Whether they're big, small, fast, slow, striped, spotted, or anything in between, dinosaurs are just so lovable! With rhyming text and bright watercolor illustrations, this joyful read is perfect for little ones who love dinosaurs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763699598
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	06/26/2018
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	710,902
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Lucy Volpin has a passion for the pencil, but as she is dyslexic, she never imagined that she would not only be illustrating but writing stories, too. She lives in rural Devon, England, with her husband and enjoys spending time renovating their barn conversion, walking, singing, and making a mess in her studio. This is her first picture book.

Editorial Reviews

06/25/2018
The title says it all: this is a book for dinosaur lovers. With upbeat rhymes and jewel-toned watercolors, debut author Volpin celebrates prehistoric creatures (“We love their spots and zigzags, too,/ their colors—yellow, red, and blue”). The usual dinos (triceratops, stegosaurus) are featured, as are the less familiar silvisaurus, minmi, and ouranosaurus. Regardless of type, all are equally friendly looking, with sweet, often toothless smiles and inquisitive expressions. Even the tyrannosaurus looks like it’s laughing when it roars, eyes crinkled shut and grin enormous. In addition to a few predictable rhymes (“tall/small”), Volpin provides some delightful lines that build toward a fitting concluding sentiment: “In fact, we really love them all!/ We’d only love them more, we think/ if somehow they weren’t all extinct.” Ages 2–5. (June)

Publishers Weekly

Is there a child out there who doesn't love dinosaurs? Very young readers will thrill to the sight of these smiling, roly-poly, brightly colored dinosaurs of various kinds, painted in watercolors to resemble reassuringly friendly, beloved toys.
—Kirkus Reviews

The title says it all: this is a book for dinosaur lovers. With upbeat rhymes and jewel-toned watercolors, debut author Volpin celebrates prehistoric creatures (“We love their spots and zigzags, too,/ their colors—yellow, red, and blue”).
—Publishers Weekly Online

From the Publisher

06/01/2018
PreS—Large pastel pictures and simple rhyming text in this ode to dinosaurs set it up to be a favorite among storytellers for the very young. Vaguely reminiscent of Sandra Boynton's Oh My! Oh My! Oh Dinosaurs!, this offering also incorporates colors, opposites, and fun vocabulary like gallop and plodding. Curious young listeners will pore over the watercolor visual index in the back featuring nine interesting dino varieties. VERDICT Though the somewhat generic title could potentially doom it to obscurity in a herd of other prehistoric picture books, Volpin's clever vocabulary and endearing watercolors make this a satisfying addition to the storytime canon.—Jenna Boles, Greene County Public Library, Beavercreek, OH

School Library Journal

2018-03-27
Is there a child out there who doesn't love dinosaurs?Very young readers will thrill to the sight of these smiling, roly-poly, brightly colored dinosaurs of various kinds, painted in watercolors to resemble reassuringly friendly, beloved toys. With no pretense at verisimilitude or much educational enlightenment, 15 different species are depicted and labeled on the front and back endpapers, giving tiny dino lovers a very rough idea of what the creatures shown in the book probably looked like (with artistic license for the colors), the art differentiating among them to show off scientifically known attributes such as relative sizes, crests, horns, spikes, and so on. Told in very simple, rollicking verse, the text encourages vocabulary enrichment and also lends itself to animated reading, abetted by the sometimes-capitalized extra-large display type that's used for important adjectives, nouns, and verbs. However, an adult will have to help children with the definition of the word "extinct," depicted on the final spread featuring Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops skeletons and a wide-eyed white child in shorts and black child in a dress.Nothing terribly special, but an energetic acknowledgment of the passion most tykes feel about these long-gone prehistoric animals. (Picture book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews