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> Tag: Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures

Move over Tiny Rex! The Big Predators are in town!

Mega-Predators of the Past by Melissa Stewart

January 3, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

“Dinosaurs? What is that? Something you put ointment on?” You will say after reading, Mega-Predators of the Past. Those (as the book says, but honestly, I agree with) scene stealing dinosaurs are nothing compared to the real predators of history. From the smallest (great scorpions and griffenflies (a really large dragonfly-like being) at 28 inches) to the largest (the over 100-foot blue whale) you will see the great creatures. Melissa Stewart gives us as it was. Or, in the case of the blue whale, how […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Melissa Stewart, Predatory animals, Prehistoric animals, Science & Nature, zoology

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Melissa Stewart, Predatory animals, Prehistoric animals, Science & Nature, zoology ·
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One for Next Year

The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher

December 28, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Christmasaurus is exactly what you expect from a Christmas story about a dinosaur who is blue, one of the kind, and lives at the North Pole. I mean I have seen candy canes less sweetly sugary than this Tom Fletcher story! That does not make it a bad book, just predictable for the adult reader. Christmasaurus wants to fly. Of course, the lessons (one a year for almost four years) do not seem to stick. But one Christmas Eve Santa came to say, Christmasaurus […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Christmas & Advent, Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Disabilities & Special Needs, Holidays & Celebrations, Shane DeVries, Social Themes, Tom Fletcher

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:642 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Christmas & Advent, Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Disabilities & Special Needs, Holidays & Celebrations, Shane DeVries, Social Themes, Tom Fletcher ·
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She found dinosaurs in her backyard

A Dinosaur Named Ruth: How Ruth Mason Discovered Fossils in Her Own Backyard by Julia Lyon

June 7, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I do not know if I would call a dinosaur Ruth, but since Ruth Mason discovered so many of them, I guess one named Ruth is not so bad. And in A Dinosaur Named Ruth: How Ruth Mason Discovered Fossils in Her Own Backyard we see how she found so many goodies that would make up Ruth and many many more dinosaurs. It was 1905 and a girl named Ruth found strange rocks on her family’s land. Over the years, she keeps finding more, but […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alexandra Bye, Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Fossils, Julia Lyon, Ranchers, Ruth Mason, Science & Nature, Science & Technology, South Dakota

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:273 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alexandra Bye, Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Fossils, Julia Lyon, Ranchers, Ruth Mason, Science & Nature, Science & Technology, South Dakota ·
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Nothing will tricera-top this pun.

The Dinosaur Expert by Margaret McNamara

February 12, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Dinosaur Expert is a nice girl power book dealing with a subject that girls are not usually associated with when it comes to the sciences: Dinosaurs. The only real issue I have with Margaret McNamara’s picture book is the cliché it is a boy that tells our heroine, Kimmy, “girls can’t be scientists.” I think just once, I want the surprise of another girl saying this. Just to mix things up. Part of the Mr. Tiffin’s Classroom series, this book deals with the science […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Margaret McNamara, School & Education, School field trips

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:78 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Margaret McNamara, School & Education, School field trips ·
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They say it with love

How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah? by Jane Yolen

November 27, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The illustrations of the cover tell you that this is another Jane Yolen and Mark Teague collaboration. And the cute lovely dinosaur on said cover shows you it is part of their How Do Dinosaurs…? series. The title tells you that this is How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah? The format is familiar: the narrator asks does the dinosaur do X? (Something naughty or mischievous). And then you see what you should be doing to celebrate the holiday. The board book format makes it perfect […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: behavior, Chanukah, Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Hanukkah, Holiday, Jane Yolen, Mark Teague, Stories in rhyme

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:501 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: behavior, Chanukah, Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Hanukkah, Holiday, Jane Yolen, Mark Teague, Stories in rhyme ·
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Tiny Dino Big Hug

Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug  by  Jonathan Stutzman

May 31, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While the story has been done before (just do your best as you be yourself and you can do great big things) this time it has a slightly different feel. Maybe Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug  by Jonathan Stutzman seems different is because of the slightly non-realism of the illustrations created by Jay Fleck. Or maybe because it has dinosaurs in it (and some really cute little cuddle-bug dinosaurs). Or maybe just because the text feels subtly different from than other books for some […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Jay Fleck, Jonathan Stutzman

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:194 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Jay Fleck, Jonathan Stutzman ·
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