How Do Dinosaurs Go Up and Down? by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Mark Teague. 2011. 14 pgs. New York, NY: Scholastic. 9780545279420. Format reviewed: Board Book.
Annotation: The reader finds out about opposite behavior dinosaurs engage in.
Reaction: We find out about seven opposite pairs that dinosaurs do: up-down, clean-messy, quiet-loud, slow-fast, sad-happy, little-big, and asleep-awake. Following the same narrative structure as the other How Do Dinosaurs books, it uses rhyming throughout, albeit with multiple patterns, including AABCDC and ABCB. Each of the dinosaurs, in anthropomorphic behavior, features the name of the species subtly in the illustration.
Primary early literacy skills: Print Awareness. Each the opposite concept words are very large on the page and feature a dinosaur directly engaging in that behavior.
Recommended ages: 2 and up.
Tags/themes: Dinosaurs, Concept-opposites.
Author’s site/additional titles: janeyolen.com
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