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The bestselling, award-winning team of Yolen and Teague are back with another dinosaur tale--a fourth full-length picture book about how dinosaurs behave at school.Everyone's favorite dinosaurs are back--and this time they are going to school. More fun dinosaur antics await. These prehistoric pupils are in a class of their own!As in their previous books, Yolen and Teague capture children's rambunctious natures with playful read-aloud verse and wonderfully amusing pictures.
Author Notes
Jane Yolen was born February 11, 1939 in New York City. She received a bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1960 and a master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. After college, she became an editor in New York City and wrote during her lunch break. She sold her first children's book, Pirates in Petticoats, at the age of 22. Since then, she has written over 300 books for children, young adults, and adults.
Her other works include the Emperor and the Kite, Owl Moon, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? and The Devil's Arithmetic. She has won numerous awards including the Kerlan Award, the Regina Medal, the Keene State Children's Literature Award, the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the World Fantasy Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Award.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 3-This animated version of Jane Yolen's book (Blue Sky Press, 2007) is a perfect way to start the school year. Viewers, especially dinophiles, will delight as the remiss school children turn into lumbering dinosaurs, committing all sorts of infractions during the school day. Being late for the school bus, roughhousing in the schoolyard, running in the halls, disrupting class, calling out of turn, pushing, and teasing are among the misbehaviors featured in this humorously didactic story. Yolen's rhyming text and Mark Teague's irresistible brightly-colored dinosaurs are accompanied with lively music; sound effects that include grunts, groans, and gasps; and a screen that shakes violently up and down when little dinosaurs run or jump. Narrated by the author, the rhyming questions are finally answered with a firm, "No.A dinosaur carefully raises his hand. He helps out his classmates with projects they've planned," and other admirable actions. The spread, "At recess he plays with a number of friends, and growls at the bullies till bullying ends," comes alive on the screen as a flying reptile catches a ball midair and then swoops over to snatch a startled bully and return him to the classroom. During the credits, good little dinosaurs raise their hands, work on their writing, water the plants, and play nicely at school. An added bonus is an interview with the author, who explains how she came to write the dinosaur series and communicates her love of reading and writing. Clips from the other dinosaur videos and childhood photos are interspersed. Students can write their own classroom rules after viewing.-Barbara Auerbach, P.S. 217, Brooklyn, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
The latest from Jane Yolen and Mark Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? initially has a band of dinos attracting many a stern stare from teachers. A centrosaurus interrupts show-and-tell to brandish his stuffed monkey and a monolophosaurus "roar[s] out of turn," but soon the creatures-and young readers-understand proper behavior before, during and after school. (Scholastic/Blue Sky, $16.99 40p ages 3-5 ISBN 9780-439-02081-7; July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved