What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night: A Very Messy Adventure (What the Dinosaurs Did Series #1)

by Refe Tuma, Susan Tuma

Overview

From the creative parents who brought the world the web sensation "Dinovember" comes photographic proof of what toys get up to when the rest of the house is asleep.

You might have noticed weird things happening in your house. Unexplainable messes. Food all over the kitchen floor. Who could the culprits be? Dinosaurs! Boasting bright and hilarious photographs, along with a story written from the point of view of an older, wiser sibling, Refe and Susan Tuma's picture book documents a very messy adventure that shows just what the dinosaurs did last night.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316294614
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	10/28/2014
Series:	What the Dinosaurs Did Series , #1
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
Lexile:	570L (what's this?)
File size:	91 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Refe and Susan Tuma live in Kansas City with their four children and a herd of plastic dinosaurs. The Tumas began cataloguing their dinosaurs' antics in 2012, igniting the imaginations of hundreds of thousands of children--young and old--across the world.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night: A Very Messy Adventure:
A Bank Street College Distinguished Children's Book
A 2017‑2018 Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee
 

* "The Tumas have much to answer for, as this album will join the many like scenes they have posted online as a record of their annual family "Dinovember" celebrations which are already, no surprise at all, spawning fans and similar outbreaks of disorder in other locales. The authors may well have created a monster with this deliciously chaotic notion."—Kirkus, starred review

"Filled with whimsy and imagination, this book will delight children of all ages... Detailed photographs will keep kids turning the pages and parents enjoying the rockling dino antics."—School Library Journal

"...successfully captures the wonder, exasperation, and secret admiration provoked by these terrible lizards’ terrible behavior."—Publishers Weekly

Praise for What the Dinosaurs Did at School:
 

"The Tumas' neon photographs of toy dinos draped in spaghetti, bouncing on soccer balls and
devouring library books are mini‑masterpieces of creativity."—USA Today

"The husband‑and‑wife team of "Dinovember" fame pose their plastic dinosaurs with props and use perspective masterfully to stage their scenes.... Better add plastic dinosaurs to the shopping list‑kids will want in on the fun."—Kirkus Reviews

"Amusing and fun, students who love dinosaurs will devour this book."—School Library Journal

"The compositions are excellent, the props adorable... and the hyperbolic narration sustains a fever pitch."—Publishers Weekly

Praise for What the Dinosaurs Did the Night Before Christmas:
 

“A fun-to-read, rhyming book that kids will enjoy…a nice addition to Christmas picture book collections.”—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

★ 2015-06-10
For anyone who doubts that plastic dinosaurs come to life and sneak out at night to make household messes, here's photographic evidence. As caught in the act by a trusty camera with "custom bacon modification to attract hungry dinosaurs," toy dinos head first for the fridge but go on to turn the playroom, parents' room, laundry room, and attic into domestic disaster areas. The scenes are littered with loose food and bric-a-brac, splashed with shaving cream and mustard, covered in tangles of yarn, spritzes of spray paint and, in the climactic living-room tableau, wild smears of dark brown goop that surely can't be what it looks like. It's not malicious mischief, as the accompanying commentary notes, but all in good fun, and eventually the dinos will go back to lying low…though, as a final shot of a busy rooftop launch pad reveals, they'll always be up to something. The Tumas have much to answer for, as this album will join the many like scenes they have posted online as a record of their annual family "Dinovember" celebrations…which are already, no surprise at all, spawning fans and similar outbreaks of disorder in other locales. The authors may well have created a monster with this deliciously chaotic notion. (Picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews