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Description for Flip-o-saurus
Board book. By turning over the flaps of this clever book, you can put together 1,000 imaginary dinosaurs, like the Stegodocus, the Oviplosaurus, or the Diploraptops. Each dinosaur has fascinating information about its head, body, and tail--so you can make your own Flip-o-saurus and see what it can do! Illustrator(s): Ball, Sara. Num Pages: 22 pages, 22 Colour. BIC Classification: YBGT; YNNA. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 256 x 315 x 18. Weight in Grams: 818.
By turning over the flaps of this clever book, you can put together 1,000 imaginary dinosaurs, like the Stegodocus, the Oviplosaurus, or the Diploraptops. Each dinosaur has fascinating information about its head, body, and tail - so you can make your own Flip-o-saurus and see what it can do!
By turning over the flaps of this clever book, you can put together 1,000 imaginary dinosaurs, like the Stegodocus, the Oviplosaurus, or the Diploraptops. Each dinosaur has fascinating information about its head, body, and tail - so you can make your own Flip-o-saurus and see what it can do!
Product Details
Publisher
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Number of pages
22
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
788g
Number of Pages
22
Format
Board book
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780789210616
SKU
V9780789210616
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Britta Drehsen
Artist Sara Ball is a prolific illustrator of children's books, many of them concerning modern or prehistoric animals.
Reviews for Flip-o-saurus
Gr 1-3
Moments of entertainment may be provided by this oversize, cut-page gallery that invites children to mix and match the heads, bodies, and tails of 10 dinosaurs. Brief descriptive comments at the base of each flap offer further opportunity for hilarity: the Diplo-Thyo-Ryx, for instance, announces that My neck is twenty feet long, I live in the ocean, and My long, bony tail is covered in colorful feathers. Printed on heavy card stock, Ball's painted portraits are big and bright enough to draw even younger children
but the appeal will be strictly ephemeral and next to the oldie but goodie Dinosaur Mix-Up (Starlight Editions, 1990), the number of possible choices here is downright paltry.
School Library Journal The simple but clever design of this book splits each cardboard page into three segments, chopping 10 different dinosaurs into fronts, middles, and backs to be mixed and matched at will. Their names and attributes also get divided up (e.g., ending in -tops means a creature would have a short, heavy tail ), but this should be taken more as ways to come up with wacky-sounding names than scientific insights. It's hard not to foresee dino-crazy kids having oodles of fun with this book, arguing endlessly over the relative merits of the Diplooptesaurus versus the Tyrannoploryx. Grades 1-3.
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Moments of entertainment may be provided by this oversize, cut-page gallery that invites children to mix and match the heads, bodies, and tails of 10 dinosaurs. Brief descriptive comments at the base of each flap offer further opportunity for hilarity: the Diplo-Thyo-Ryx, for instance, announces that My neck is twenty feet long, I live in the ocean, and My long, bony tail is covered in colorful feathers. Printed on heavy card stock, Ball's painted portraits are big and bright enough to draw even younger children
but the appeal will be strictly ephemeral and next to the oldie but goodie Dinosaur Mix-Up (Starlight Editions, 1990), the number of possible choices here is downright paltry.
School Library Journal The simple but clever design of this book splits each cardboard page into three segments, chopping 10 different dinosaurs into fronts, middles, and backs to be mixed and matched at will. Their names and attributes also get divided up (e.g., ending in -tops means a creature would have a short, heavy tail ), but this should be taken more as ways to come up with wacky-sounding names than scientific insights. It's hard not to foresee dino-crazy kids having oodles of fun with this book, arguing endlessly over the relative merits of the Diplooptesaurus versus the Tyrannoploryx. Grades 1-3.
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