If I Had a Dinosaur

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When your child is consistently able to recognise the rhyming words in the story you can then encourage him or her to come up with a word. You can say “Can you think of another word that rhymes with ‘school’ and ‘cool’?”. A young girl dreams of having her own pet. She wonders what animal would be best for her. Of the three most common pets, she likes dogs, has a cat, and a fish is simply too wet! The girl, still in pajamas, bounces on her bed—where a toy green dinosaur sits—and finally decides, she wants “a pet much bigger, more the size of, well, A HOUSE!” This little kid also wants a dinosaur after going through a list of other pets that just weren't good enough. Cats, nah. Dogs? Nah. Hamsters? Nah. Who doesn't want a dinosaur as a pet? I know I wanted one when I was a kid, and as the age I am now? Still want one! :P

All in all, a delightful book about imagination, about pets and dinosaurs, about dreams! I would recommend it.Encourage your child to think of other animals that would not be suitable as pets. Discuss the reasons they would not make good pets. This will help to develop their verbal reasoning skills. Note: A copy of this book was provided to The Baby Bookworm by the author in exchange for an honest review.) Barrow’s illustrations are equally charming and imaginative. While not stated, the young girl uses her cat as a point of reference. Just as her kitty needs to eat, drink, and have shelter, so does a huge, green dinosaur. The cat’s door-flap is small enough for a cat to slip in and out of the house. A dinosaur will need a much, much, much larger flap—and door. Barrow envisions . . .

This Creative Writing Prompts worksheet is an excellent resource to use to get your kids to practice their writing skills and develop their creative thinking skills. There are four different scenarios included in this resource. Each one has an image of an item, such as a banana or a train, and a prompt about the image. Your kids can answer the prompt however they wish in the space provided. Using a big piece of paper and crayons, encourage children to draw a dinosaur perhaps filling up the paper with a ‘big’, ‘giant’, enormous dinosaur with a ‘super long’ tail. Sing a song

Let me point out the kid in question. If you didn't look at the cover art, you'd probably think it was some little white boy, based on my description. This book and other dinosaur stories stimulated lots of play. He enjoyed hiding dinosaurs in the garden, making a mini dinosaur world in a plastic tray and making a paper plate dinosaur. He began making connections to other stories too, in particular, We’re Going on a Bearhunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury and How to be a Lion by Ed Vere, a story about a gentle lion. Noah said: ‘We’re going on a dinosaur hunt, the dinosaur might roar, the lion will teach it to be gentle.’ Things to make and do Play the story Paragraphs, just like hamburgers, have multiple parts needed to properly make one. That is the metaphor that this Hamburger Paragraph Writing Template aims to convey to your kids. Each part of the hamburger represents a different part of a paragraph, such as the top bun representing the introduction and main idea of the paragraph. But you should care what I think about the illustrations: They are delightful! Except for when they aren't.