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"Roars with speed as well as fun." -- Booklist
The dinosaurs are back and this time they're revving, roaring, and racing . . . to a dinosaur birthday party! Bursting with dinosaurs and vehicles of all shapes and sizes and with a delicious surprise ending, this is guaranteed to bring a smile to the faces of small boys and girls everywhere.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Ten dinosaurs drive a variety of vehicles from the desert up the mountain, each carrying presents for a special event. Young readers who love these creatures will find their favorites: T rex, Triceratops, and Allosaurus, and also a few new ones-Styacosaurus and Carnotaurus. Each page presents dinosaurs bumping, jumping, skidding, reversing, hurrying, hiding-getting ready. Watercolor cartoons brighten each spread, large text alerts readers to the color of each dinosaur as it drives through changing land and weather, and onomatopoeia and a wealth of exclamation points dramatize the sound of vehicles in a race to reach a forested mountainside. Some illustrations provide a few surprises-a cake large enough for a wood pallet, balloons filling the trees, and packages peeking from each vehicle, but the birthday-party ending is a predictable scenario. This is a busy book, introducing dinosaurs, vehicles, colors, weather, landforms, and word use. A general purchase for most libraries.-Mary Elam, Learning Media Services, Plano ISD, TX (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Dinosaurs of all colors in all types of vehicles race over all types of terrain through all types of weather with one goal: to make it to the littlest dinosaur's surprise birthday party. Incorporating nearly every conceivable preschool-appealing element, Dale's repetitive text and colorful, action-packed, full-spread illustrations create an energetic story that will surely garner story-hour and classroom approval. (c) Copyright 2013. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
This gleeful mashup of dinosaurs and things-that-go will surely rev up some noisy participation when it is read aloud. Dale returns with rhythmic text and vibrant watercolor-and-ink illustrations in her second dino romp (Dinosaur Dig, 2011). A first glimpse of the cover featuring a fiery-hued dinosaur behind the wheel of a blue convertible hurtling at great speed through the desert establishes that this is not your typical dino book. The beginning of the book sets a pattern in which a particular-colored dinosaur steers a certain vehicle in a specific terrain on their way to a big event. An Ankylosaurus drives a minivan, a Stegosaurus pilots an old pickup truck, and so on. (Interestingly, Welsh artist Dale mounts some steering wheels on the right and some on the left of the various cars.) Children will have fun spotting the various presents tucked away on these pages, building a little suspense and foreshadowing the party to come. The language rumbles along with sound effects: "Green dinosaur rattling. Rattling down the hill. Down the hill with a heavy load. Chug! Chug! Chug!" Soon, almost all have arrived to unload and decorate. They are "hurrying to get ready.Quick! Quick! Quick!" Once all that is done, the group hides in the trees to surprise the littlest dinosaur for his birthday. Readers will be tickled to learn that dinosaurs appear to like pizza, cookies and cake, just as they do. From start to finish, this cleverly constructed and well-designed title is a winner. (Picture book. 3-6)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Combining two of many boys' greatest pleasures dinosaurs and vehicles this picture book roars with speed as well as fun. Detailed yet playful double-page spreads also introduce colors via different-hued dinosaurs operating a variety of vehicles. The action-packed text ( Green dinosaur rattling. / Rattling down the hill. / Down the hill with a heavy load. / Chug! Chug! Chug! ) describes each creature's journey through deserts, mountains, mud, etc. Astute readers will notice wrapped packages in each vehicle and guess where the dinosaurs are heading. Once they arrive at a forest, the dinosaurs hurry to set up the festivities for a surprise birthday party, using one more vehicle, a crane truck, to move and place a three-tiered cake. And isn't that the birthday boy approaching in a sporty convertible? Packed with fairly realstic dinosaurs, balloons, streamers, and treats, the party scenes are a real delight. Children can extend the entertainment by using the endpapers to identify each dinosaur and vehicle.--Leeper, Angela Copyright 2010 Booklist