10 Things I Love about Dinosaurs

A budding “Expert-osaurus” shares some information on all things dinosaur.

The young narrator loves everything about dinos: knowing their names, reading about them, learning facts (some could fly; some were herbivores, some carnivores), attending dino-themed parties, visiting a cool dinosaur museum, digging up fossils with a paleontologist, making a volcano, and practicing dinosaur roars. But the bonus attraction is knowing that dinosaurs are extinct, “so they’ll never catch me!” McClurkan’s appealing cartoon illustrations mix pastels with bright Day-Glo hues, using little or no outlining and full but uncluttered compositions. As in the publisher’s other 10 Things…

Sure to please young dinophiles. (pronunciation help) (Picture book. 3-7) —Kirkus Reviews

For one young boy, dinosaurs are at the heart of everything he loves and does. From knowing what dinosaurs ate to understanding that the biggest dinosaurs did not always win, there are huge quantities of information to learn, with even more left to be discovered. And with a supportive family behind him, this boy is able to immerse himself in the world of dinosaurs to his heart’s content. From the first page, readers count all of the unnamed narrator’s favorite things about dinosaurs along with him, and each new entry is prefaced by its own number in a separate color from the rest of the text…