They share all the books and they never slam doors,” etc. Per series formula, these are paired to leading questions like “Does she spit out her broccoli onto the floor? / Does he shout ‘I hate meat loaf!’ while slamming the door?” (Choruses of “NO!” from young audiences are welcome.) Midway through, the tone changes (“No, dinosaurs don’t”), and good examples follow to the tune of positive declarative sentences: “They wipe up the tables and vacuum the floors. Serving as a sort of overview for the series’ 12 previous exercises in behavior modeling, this latest outing opens with a set of badly behaving dinos, identified in an endpaper key and also inconspicuously in situ. 6-8)Ī guide to better behavior-at home, on the playground, in class, and in the library. Drip is definitely a dino worth hooting over. Holding firmly to the courage of his vegetarian convictions, T. Fortunately, the toothy but dim predators have been fostering a stray duckbill-scornfully dubbed “Tyrannosaurus Drip” by his clueless fellow nestlings-who rises to his own species’s defense and, thanks to some quick thinking, tricks the T. But then a storm knocks down a well-placed tree that bridges the two banks.
Rex clan (“And they shouted, ‘Up with hunting!’ and they shouted, ‘Up with war!’ / And they shouted, ‘Up with bellyfuls of duckbill dinosaur!’ ”) on the other side. Foraging contentedly along the river (“And they hooted, ‘Up with rivers!’ and they hooted, ‘Up with reeds.’ / And they hooted, ‘Up with bellyfuls of juicy water weeds!’ ”) the duckbills feel safe from the nonswimming T. With scansion firmly in hand, Donaldson pens a rhymed tale of dino-heroism perfectly complemented by Roberts’s comical cartoon scenes of toothy carnivores and trumpet-mouthed vegetarians.
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