This book would obviously be fantastic in a classroom as a spring board for lessons on pets/dinosaurs but also has some good linkage opportunities with self care, daily routines, nursery rhymes, creative problem solving and more - I think it would be a brilliant resource for any educator to have on their shelf! Un albo illustrato coloratissimo e divertentissimo, che ha come protagonista un bambino che vuole un animale domestico un po’ diverso dal solito… Un dinosauro!

The book encourages active participation from children, with many key nouns replaced by an image causing children to fill in the blanks for themselves. Also, only the yellow children have eyes that are slanted lines instead of the round dots sported by all the other people in the story. We see the little girl tell us all about her new pet, what she will do with it (like learning it the alphabet), how she would feed it/care for it, about his enormous. But as they walk around the museum, all Dave wants to know is wherther these dinosaurs are really dead. It would give her a ride to school, but she needs to make sure she has lots of food for it to eat, a swimming pool-sized a water bowl and a giant cat flap!I particularly love that the story is about a little girl as so many dino books are targeted at boys and its doubly great that she happens to be non-white too. I thought this was a fun enjoyable book to read about pets whilst also including a variety of representative characters throughout to make every child feel included.

It would be good for 1:1 reading too as there are some prediction opportunities where an illustration replaces a word.

let's change the illustrations for the Asian characters, please, because green skin and closed eyes are not okay. As regular readers know, JJ is a fan of dinosaurs – you may have even noticed her loyal reading buddy, Mr. It's a rhyming story and those are rarely appealing to me (this one is no different) because they always seem somewhat forced (unless it's Dr. At the end of a day spent busily imagining, the girl trudges up to bed with her little plastic dinosaur. In online images, the color of the Asian children seems less offensively yellow than it does in the printed book in front of me.

The bright, joyful pictures made me happy except for in the instances they made me question the illustrator's ability to draw. Educational but silly, this is the perfect book to read with a child that is starting to attach words with images. HOWEVER, the way that Asian children are portrayed in this book is absolutely appalling and disqualifying. I was really surprised to come to GoodReads and see the negative ratings, and was horrified that I hadn't noticed the racist illustrations, but it appears my copy has been updated - thank goodness!This is one that I will NOT do again, and it is a good reminder for me to pay closer attention to the illustrations before selecting storytime books. Note: A copy of this book was provided to The Baby Bookworm by the author in exchange for an honest review. I suppose it was a good opportunity to have a discussion about stereotypes and racism with my 3-year old after he asked my why certain kids’ skin was green, but really, come on.