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Children's Booklist - Dinosaurs: Easy Picture Books


Title: Hunting the Daddyosaurus
Author: Bateman, Teresa
Summary: Two young dinosaurs track their father around the house and finally tackle him in his easy chair.


Title: Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones
Author: Barton, Byron
Summary: A cast of characters looks for, finds and assembles some dinosaur bones.


Title: Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
Author: Barton, Byron
Summary: In prehistoric days, there were many different kinds of dinosaurs


Title: Derek, the knitting Dinosaur
Author: Blackwood, Mary
Summary: Derek, a little green dinosaur, likes to stay home and knit instead of acting ferocious like his brothers.


Title: Big Old Bones: A Dinosaur Tale
Author: Carrick, Carol
Summary: Professor Potts finds some old bones and puts them together.


Title: Patrick's Dinosaurs
Author: Carrick, Carol
Summary: When his older brother talks about dinosaurs during a visit to the zoo, Patrick is afraid until he discovers they have all died.


Title: G-Rex
Author: Daniels, Teri
Summary: Gregory deals with his annoying older brother Mark by turning into fierce G-Rex and threatening to eat him.


Title: Mrs. Hen's Big Surprise
Author: Desmoinaux, Christel
Summary: Mrs. Hen is surprised when her egg hatches and a dinosaur instead of a chick emerges from it.


Title: Dinosaurs after Dark
Author: Emmett, Jonathan
Summary: Bobby finds some dinosaurs to play with in the city.


Title: Time Train
Author: Fleischman, Paul
Summary: A class travels back in time to the dinosaur age.


Title: A trip to Dinosaur Time
Author: Foreman, Michael
Summary: A boy finds himself transported to a time when dinosaurs are alive.


Title: Can I have a stegosaurus, Mom? Can I? Please!
Author: Grambling, Lois
Summary: A child describes all the possible advantages to having a stegosaurus for a pet.


Title: Dinosaur Train
Author: Gurney, John Steven
Summary: Jesse gets to ride on a dinosaur train.


Title: Dad's Dinosaur Day
Author: Hearn, Diane
Summary: Dad's behavior changes when he becomes a dinosaur for a day.


Title: Dinosaur Bob and his adventures with the Family Lazardo
Author: Joyce, William
Summary: The Lazardos run into trouble when they bring a large green dinosaur back with them from their trip.


Title: Princess Dinosaur
Author: Kastner, Jill
Summary: Princess Dinosaur has fun playing with the rest of the toys until Spots the dog comes and carries her off to an outdoor adventure.


Title: Dinosailors
Author: Lund, Deb
Summary: After spending time sailing, some seasick dinosaurs decide they have had enough of the high seas.


Title: Mine!
Author: Luthardt, Kevin
Summary: Two brothers fight over their new toy dinosaur until it breaks and they learn to share.


Title: Bronto eats meat
Author: Maloney, Peter
Summary: A young plant-eating dinosaur, having accidentally swallowed a boy, has three choices for getting rid of his stomachache.


Title: Dinosaur Days
Author: Manning, Linda
Summary: Each day of the week a different dinosaur appears at a girl's house to engate in some kind of mischief.


Title: When Dinosaurs go to school
Author: Martin, Linda
Summary: Dinosaurs spend a day at school with reading, writing, arithmetic, music, fingerpaints, exercise, and pizza.


Title: Dinosaurumpus
Author: Mitton, Tony
Summary: A tale of Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus gathering at the swamp to dance.


Title: If the Dinosaurs came back
Author: Most, Bernard
Summary: A young boy who wishes for the return of dinosaurs imagines how useful they would be.


Title: Shadow of the Dinosaur
Author: Nolan, Dennis
Summary: A boy and his dog find a magic dinosaur bone that shows them what life was like among the dinosaurs.


Title: Dazzle the Dinosaur
Author: Pfister, Marcus
Summary: Dazzle the dinosaur helps his friend and her mother reclaim their home from the nasty Dragonsaurus.


Title: It's probably good that Dinosaurs are extinct
Author: Raney, Ken
Summary: A boy imagines how different things would be if dinosaurs still roamed the earth.


Title: Tyrannosaurus Time
Author: Ryder, Joanne
Summary: A child is transformed into a tyrannosaurus rex for a day.


Title: The little green goose
Author: Sansone, Adele
Summary: Mr. Goose finds an abandoned egg, hatches it and raises a peculiar green-skinned long tailed chick.


Title: Saturday night at the Dinosaur stomp
Author: Shields, Carol
Summary: When it's rock'n'roll time, many different kinds of dinosaurs gather at the Saturday night party.


Title: Good night, Dinosaur
Author: Sierra, Judy
Summary: Different kinds of dinosaurs prepare for bedtime.


Title: Ten terrible Dinosaurs
Author: Stickland, Paul
Summary: Learn to count with the wildest bunch of stomping, romping dinosaurs ever!


Title: I met a dinosaur
Author: Wahl, Jan
Summary: After a visit to a museum of natural history, a young girl begins to see dinosaurs everywhere.


Title: How do Dinosaurs get well soon?
Author: Yolen, Jane
Summary: Describes what a dinosaur should do in order to quickly get over being sick.