My Teacher Is a Dinosaur!

by Bill Canterbury, Jeff Harter (Illustrator)

Overview

You think your school is weird? What if your teacher was a Tyrannosaurus rex?!

Fans of the unusual creatures in the "How to Catch a" series will love this new super-silly picture book, a perfect back-to-school giggle. Includes two pages of stickers!

It's the wildest classroom ever with a T. rex teacher who decorates with dino-motivation, loves to roar, and sometimes gets a bit stompy!

From crushing desks to very loud math lessons, this prehistoric teacher turns every school day into an adventure, including the most epic field trips to Dinosaur Land!

Discover the hilarious chaos when a T. rex runs the show, making every other classroom look tame by comparison. Will you survive a day in this Jurassic class?

With page after page of jokes, puns, and visual gags, it's a book kids will want to read over and over. And it makes a perfect back-to-school gift!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593807934
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	06/03/2025
Series:	My Life is Weird
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	9.31(w) x 9.31(h) x 0.34(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

BILL CANTERBURY is a writer best known for his work in film and television. He has been a staff writer on over a dozen shows, including The Simpsons, Pinky and the Brain, and Star Wars: Clone Wars. Bill is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in Applied Mathematics. The My Life is Weird series (My Dad Is a Unicorn!, My Mom Is a Mermaid!, and My Teacher Is a Dinosaur!) are Bill’s debut children’s books. He lives in Los Angeles.

JEFF HARTER is an illustrator working in books, licensing, greeting cards, editorial, and entertainment. He is also professor and chair of illustration at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and three daughters.

Editorial Reviews

2025-03-08
It’s a truth universally acknowledged: Teachers are bizarre.

“They put sticky notes everywhere. And sometimes they dress strange.” In the accompanying images, a scattered-looking educator is surrounded by a flurry of Post-it notes while another proudly shows off a tie made from paper clips. But all pale in comparison with the teacher at the center of this story: a T. rex. The jokes fly as four students, who collectively narrate, describe their teacher’s antics. When the heater breaks, she chuckles (“You should have seen the Ice Age!”), her motivational posters are off-putting (“Chase your dreams and your dinner!”), and every day is an opportunity to roar (“Two plus two equals FOURRRRRRRRRRRRR!”). A field trip to the museum is enlightening (who better to offer a tour of the dino exhibit?), but it ends with the authorities—who assume the teacher is a model that’s come to life—chasing her and her students off the premises. The book wraps up with the kids drawing their favorite dinosaur (their teacher, of course); readers may be spurred to create their own stories. Canterbury’s goofy text pairs well with Harter’s cartoonish illustrations; though this sharp-toothed teacher is a true carnivore, her jolly expressions make her more comical than scary.

Roaring good comedic inspiration.(Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews

"Roaring good comedic inspiration." —Kirkus

"There’s one thing the students in this class never experience—boredom" —School Library Journal

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