Dinosaur Story Time!

Today was dinosaur story time and dinosaurs are a huge hit with the preschoolers!

The first book that I read was Dinosaur Kisses by David Ezra Stein. The children absolutely loved this book! The story features Dinah, a young dinosaur who has just hatched. She stomps, chomps, and then she sees two small animals kissing! So, she decides to try that next. However kissing proves hard to master as Dinah whomps a small animal, chomps a big dinosaur, and stomps on a little fish with legs that has just started to walk on land. She tries to kiss another animal, but ends up eating him instead. "Whoops," said Dinah. "Not good." Another dinosaur hatches out of an egg and together the two dinosaurs chomp, stomp, and whomp. The children had a lot of fun chomping, stomping, and whomping!

The next book that I read was Rex Wrecks It! by Ben Clanton. The children loved this story as well. Rex, the dinosaur, wrecks all of the lovely things that Gizmo, Sprinkles, and Wild have built. He wrecks Gizmo's out-of-this-world rocket, Sprinkle's magical heart, and Wild's wooden wonder of wisdom. When Rex wrecks the biggest, strongest, most awesomerific block castle ever, Gizmo gets an idea. His idea is to have Rex help them build their next project. At the end, after everyone admires their project they all wreck it together! The children enjoyed "rawring" along with Rex.
Instead of a third story, I presented a flannel board about ten dinosaurs. Ten dinosaurs are crowded together in a cave. They toss and turn and push and shove and roar! And roar some more! Each time this happens one dinosaur rolls out of the cave (disappears from the flannel board). The children and I had fun counting down the dinosaurs.
I had two more stories that I had set aside for story time, but did not read. These books are as follows:

In Dinosaur vs. The Library by Bob Shea, Dinosaur is on his way to the library and roaring as he goes. On his way, he meets a cow, baby chicks, a shy turtle, and sad owl. He roars at them and wins! Now Dinosaur will roar where no one has roared before ..... the library! The librarian asks Dinosaur to use his inside roar and he does. But here comes the ultimate test - can Dinosaur not roar for a whole story in story time? Dinosaur stays quiet and both Dinosaur and the library win! This book is great for a story time book or a one-on-one read aloud. The children love to roar right along with Dinosaur!

In If I Had a Triceraptops by George O'Connor, a young boy imagines what it would be like to have a triceratops as a pet. He would take her on walks so she could meet new friends, play fetch with her, and train her tricks like sit up, roll over, play dead, and high five! Of course, she might get into trouble for eating his homework or chasing the neighbor's car, but it would all be worth it when she greeted him after he came home from school. This book is great for a story time book or a one-on-one read aloud.