Dinosaur Christmas

by Jerry Pallotta, Howard McWilliam (Illustrator)

Overview

What did Santa use to pull his sleigh before he had reindeer? Dinosaurs!

Santa Claus reminisces about "the good old days" when dinosaurs pulled his sleigh. The Tyrannosaurus rex wouldn't stop licking Santa, the Pterosaurs flew too high, and the Maiasauras ate presents when no one was looking! Santa thinks the reindeer are a treasure. But when he and his old dinosaur pals look in on a little girl who's sleeping, he admits that sometimes he misses "the good old days." Children will love meeting Santa's prehistoric friends in Jerry Pallotta's silly and sweet new classic. Beautifully illustrated by Howard McWilliam, DINOSAUR CHRISTMAS is a Christmas like no other!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545433600
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	08/27/2013
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	AD490L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Jerry Pallotta is an award-winning author of children's books, including What I Saw in the Teachers' Lounge, Dinosaur Christmas, Who Will Guide My Sleigh Tonight?, Apple Fractions, and The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Multiplication Book. His combination of interesting facts, detailed research, humor, and realistic illustrations has mesmerized countless children across the United States. You can visit him at jerrypallotta.com.
Howard McWilliam is the illustrator of Dinosaur Christmas by Jerry Pallotta,I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll, When a Dragon Moves In by Jodi Moore, and the What If You Had...? series by Sandra Markle. He lives in Kingston Upon Thames, England, with his wife, Rebecca. For more information, go to howardmcwilliam.com.

Editorial Reviews

09/16/2013
Santa takes a stroll down Memory Lane to the good old, old, old days when dinosaurs, not reindeer, pulled his sleigh. He offers fond and funny recollections of the dinos he tried out for the job: “Triceratops were steady and ready... but a bit slow,” he writes as a pair of them study a map and sip coffee from travel cups. Various anthropomorphic dinosaurs tromp through snowy scenes in a story that mainly shows off McWilliam’s goofy mashups of the prehistoric and the modern—from the styracosauruses wearing tool belts and hardhats as they present Santa with a list of union demands to a trio of stegosauruses strung up with Christmas lights and ornaments on a “merry, spiky, pointy Christmas.” Ages 5–7. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for F IS FOR FENWAY (written by Jerry Pallotta and illustrated by John Dykes)"Pallotta writes with such infectious enthusiasm ... that readers will join him in appreciating and admiring all that makes Fenway a monument to the great American sport." —BOOKLISTPraise for WHEN A DRAGON MOVES IN (written by Jodi Moore and illustrated by Howard McWilliam)The author "gives McWilliam (I NEED MY MONSTER) plenty of room to exercise his considerable gifts for operatic expressiveness and expertly choreographed physical humor." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLYPraise for I NEED MY MONSTER (written by Amanda Noll and illustrated by Howard McWilliam)"Dramatic in perspective, McWilliam's exaggerated, digitally colored art renders the monsters in a spectrum of neon hues and outlandish shapes." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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