  | Full Text Reviews: School Library Journal - 11/01/2012 PreS-Gr 1—Oldland counts down from "10 striding velociraptors" to "1 lumbering stegosaurus" as dinosaurs cavort all over the pages, eating, sleeping, playing, and flying. The page for zero shows a dinosaur skeleton. "None. No dinosaurs. (They're extinct, silly!)" There is no background to all of the different dinosaurs that are drawn solely in shades of green and brown. Most of them seem to be smiling, even when showing their teeth, and the words "herbivore," "carnivore," and "predator" are used but not defined. This title works as a concept book about counting and as a nonthreatening intro to dinos.—Ieva Bates, Ann Arbor District Library, MI - Copyright 2012 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission. Loading...
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