Dinosaur Dance!

by Sandra Boynton, Sandra Boynton (Illustrator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Ridiculously fun, this will get you and your young readers up and dancing along with the dinosaurs.

Join Sandra Boynton’s lively prehistoric bunch as they get everyone’s tails shaking and feet stomping when they perform a Dinosaur Dance!

Whether they do the Shimmy Shimmy Shake, the Quivery Quake, or just decide to Cha Cha Cha, young readers are sure to giggle and groove along with these delightful, dancing dinosaurs that are ready for a ROARING good time!

ZANG! BOP!
KIDDLY POW!
The DINOSAUR DANCE
is starting NOW!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481480994
Publisher:	Boynton Bookworks
Publication date:	08/30/2016
Pages:	16
Sales rank:	8,319
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. More than 85 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children’s music. Three of her six albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold) and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has been certified Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning “One Shoe Blues” starring B.B. King, “Alligator Stroll” starring Josh Turner, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk” (animated) sung by Samuel L. Jackson. She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.

Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. More than 85 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children’s music. Three of her six albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold) and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has been certified Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning “One Shoe Blues” starring B.B. King, “Alligator Stroll” starring Josh Turner, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk” (animated) sung by Samuel L. Jackson. She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.

Hometown:

"Somewhere in rural Connecticut"

Date of Birth:

April 3, 1953

Place of Birth:

Orange, New Jersey

Education:

B.A., Yale University, 1974; attended University of California--Berkeley Drama School and Yale Drama School

Editorial Reviews

01/01/2017
Toddler-PreS—Boynton is back with another winner. Her latest board book is all about dinosaurs. Readers are immediately told the dinosaur dance is beginning on the opening page. Each spread that follows involves rhyming couplets about dancing dinosaurs. Proper names, such as triceratops, velociraptor, and iguanodon, are used to identify each unique dinosaur. Movement possibilities are endless with the text, and this will be a great addition to storytime shelves.

School Library Journal

2016-10-12
It's not the first time dinosaurs have been featured in a clever Boynton board book. It seems she—and we—can't get enough. As her fans know, Boynton has a sly wit that respects the intelligence of her young fans and amuses the adults asked to "read it again." In this book she introduces nine dinosaurs, each of which dances in a way that seems totally appropriate for that particular species. "The blue Stegosaurus goes SHIMMY SHIMMY SHAKE. / The red Brontosaurus goes QUIVERY QUAKE." Drawing on her experience as a children's musician, she writes a text that trips along like a song with rhymes that make sense but don't intrude. The illustrations, typical Boynton, reflect her greeting-card background. They are cartoonish but manage to capture the unique personality of each creature. The unnamed dinosaur narrator looks genuinely distraught at not being able to name the "tiny little dino" that "goes DEEDLY DEE." Spoiler alert: the tiny little dinosaur is probably Compsognathus and would be about the size of a small chicken. Young dinophiles would be impressed if the dinosaurologists in their lives could supply that factoid, but alas, they will have to look it up. This will have readers putting on their dancing shoes to do the "cha cha cha" with their dino-babies. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews