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I Speak Dinosaur
by
Jed Henry
Little boys will roar for I Speak Dinosaur!, in which an energetic kid with a big imagination prefers to “speak Dinosaur.” Speaking Dinosaur means he doesn’t have to use his manners and instead can roar and growl at his friends and family! But speaking Dinosaur gets the boy into trouble, and without other “dinosaurs” to talk to and play with, he gets lonely. Delivering a f...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
April 1st 2012
by Harry N. Abrams
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I Speak Dinosaur by Jed Henry is a wonderful picture book for young children. This story is about a boy who can speak dinosaur. Throughout the story you see the boy talk about how dinosaurs do not have any manners and towards the end of the story you start to realize that the Tyrannosaurus Rex is actually the young boy who wears a dinosaur hat. The pictures play a huge role in telling this story and Henry writes a story that is engaging while it teaches a lesson that manners are important. This...more
When the narrator's mother has had enough of his dinosaur roaring and crashing about the house, she banishes him to the back yard. There he is free to speak dinosaur as much as he wants. Eventually, some of the neighborhood children join him where they play games with his little sister, all of them speaking dinosaur, and all of them behaving politely--just as good human dinosaurs should. The text will appeal to any young reader with an energetic nature and a little imagination or any dinosaur lo...more
I thought that this was a creative mannerism book. The illustrations really help tell the story. When the text is making you think a dinosaur is talking to them, you see later on that it is actually his friends. The story is about a little boy who thinks he can speak dinosaur. He makes up some crazy gibberish and decides to be mean by not using "thank you," "please," or "may I." Later he finds his new friends that ask if they can play with him. He says his friends are dinosaurs and they use mann...more
This book was okay. The little boy in this book speaks dinosaur so this means he doesn't have to use manners by saying thank you or please or may I. He gets to just go around roaring and growling at everyone to get what he wants. He realizes pretty quickly that people do not want to be around someone who behaves this way. Then he meets some other dinosaurs who say may I, please and thank you and realizes that he can still speak dinosaur, but that he still needs to use his manners. It has a good...more
I like the kid in this book. He reminds me of me. Also, I love the artistic conception of children appearing as dinosaurs in the illustrations when they imagine themselves as such. Just a really, really neat idea.
Toddlers and Pre-K. Similar to How do Dinosaurs... series. Short and sweet about a boy who forgets his manners in his quest to be a dinosaur. Turns out even dinosaurs should act nice.
Fun book about manners, which includes dinosaurs. Manners are important in the classroom; through this unique book, students can adopt reasons to be polite and ways to use their manners.
A boy who loves to speak rudely and roar like a dinosaur discovers that it can be lonely without others who speak the same "language."
Might have to add this interesting book to my repertoire of dinosaur books for storytimes- it's different.
This wasn't a bad story. There is an underlying message about not being dinosaur-y maybe? Maybe not. I wouldn't reserve it from the library again, but I might reach for it, if there was nothing else to read my kids.
A little boy explains that he's not rude and loud, he's just talking dinosaur.
Fabulous illustrations, but disappointing text about manners.
very cute dinosaurs; a painless lesson in good manners.
Fun subject and fun to read together.
DInos & manners - yes please!
SM
Good read alike for the Yolen dinosaur books. Good read aloud.
rawr!
I really wasn't impressed, and I felt I've read different variations of this story before and they were much better.
May 17, 2013
Danica Midlil
marked it as to-read
Apr 10, 2013
Kayla
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Mar 16, 2013
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Brian
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