Iamasaurus

by Anne Ylvisaker, Mark Hoffmann (Illustrator)

Overview

A romp of a tale about the surprising similarities between dinosaurs and children

Iamasaurus. I am noodlevorous. One of the genus Ridiculorous. Mothers abhor us. Babies adore us. We romp and we stomp and we chomp on the floras. Turns out kids are not unlike T. rexes. Did you know both creatures share many of the same body parts—maxillae, mandibles, clavicles, ribs. Scapulas, humeri, tibias, fibs? This fun romp of a book will make young readers' inner dinosaurs roar with delight.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951836436
Publisher:	Cameron Kids
Publication date:	04/12/2022
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	416,871
Product dimensions:	9.55(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Anne Ylvisaker is an award-winning author of middle-grade novels and nonfiction books for young readers. She lives in California. Mark Hoffmann is an illustrator and a professor of illustration at Montserrat College of Art. His books include Poop and A Is for Apple, Unless . . . , both published by Cameron Kids. He lives in southern New Hampshire with his wife and son.

Editorial Reviews

"An amusingly anarchic paleontological primer."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2021-12-27
Racially diverse children take a class field trip and learn about dinosaurs...and themselves.

A busload of not-so-supervised children romps through a dinosaur exhibit at a museum of natural history. They hop over stanchions, clamber up the skeleton displays, and seize fossil pieces; a sign ineffectually reads, “PLEASE DON’T TOUCH!” An ambiguously Black museum employee tries in vain to maintain order (though he ultimately joins the fun). Narrated in the first-person plural, the rhyming text lists the many attributes of dinosaurs: “We're explorers, / outdoorers. / We travel in herds. / Don't try to catch us, / we'll fly off like birds”; and “WE'VE GOT / MAXILLAE, / MANDIBLES, / CLAVICLES, / RIBS. // SCAPULAS, / HUMERI, / TIBIAS, / FIBS”; and so forth. However, the amusing and educational illustrations make it clear that the children aren’t too different from the prehistoric reptiles; in fact, by the visit’s end, the kids have undergone a “roarsome” transformation. Ylvisaker’s text—which takes amusing liberties to achieve some of the rhymes—is delightfully silly but provides plenty of opportunities for vocabulary-building. Best of all, caregivers and children can channel their inner dinos and “ROAR,” “STOMP,” and “CHOMP!” together. The children are cartoonishly rendered with faces composed of simple geometric shapes and a variety of skin tones. One girl uses a wheelchair.

An amusingly anarchic paleontological primer. (Picture book. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews