Bibliographic Citation: Yolen, Jane. How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight. Illustrated by Mark Teague. Blue Sky Press, 2000. 40 pages. ISBN: 978-0590316811.
Format: Hardcover
Awards: Florida Children's Book Award (2002), Massachusetts Book Award Nominee for Children's Picture Book (2001), An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2001), Buckaroo Book Award Nominee (2001), Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book for Children's Illustrated (2001)
Author/Illustrator Sites: http://janeyolen.com
Age Group: Ages 3-4 Years
Annotation: A Mother and Father have trouble putting their dinosaurs to bed.
Reflection: This bedtime book about dinosaurs follows a rhetoric question then answer format and describes what ten different dinosaurs do to delay going to bed. The human parents try to put the dinosaur children to bed but have to deal with their stall tactics. But by the end of the book, in answer to the rhetorical part of the book it shows the dinosaurs going to bed without giving the parents any problems. This teaches children that bedtime is a time to behave and not protest like the dinosaurs had been doing in the first part of the book. Children can spot the proper names of each of the dinosaurs in every scene.
Categorization Tags: Bedtime, Dinosaurs
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