If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur

Illustrated by Colin Jack
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$18.99 US
On sale May 13, 2014 | 40 Pages | 9781770495685

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If you happen to have a dinosaur, lying around your living room, and you don't know what to do with it ... why don't you use it as a can opener? It will make a terrific nutcracker too! There are oodles of uses for a dinosaur -- from a fine umbrella to an excellent kite and a dandy pillow, not to mention a reliable burglar alarm and the perfect excuse to forget your homework. This delightfully absurd exploration of the domestic uses of dinosaurs -- and the things dinos just aren't good for at all -- is guaranteed to tickle funny bones and spark imaginations. If you read carefully, you'll learn how to make your dinosaur last a very long time.
  • NOMINEE | 2016
    Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award
© Maurice Verkaar
LINDA BAILEY has written nearly forty books for children, including The Three Little Mittens, Carson Crosses Canada, Princesses Versus Dinosaurs and If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and have won multiple awards such as the Ontario Blue Spruce and Silver Birch Awards, the California Young Reader Medal, the Georgia Children's Picturebook Award and the UK School Library Association Information Book Award. Linda has been honored for her exceptional body of work in children’s literature with the Vicky Metcalf Award. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. View titles by Linda Bailey
COLIN JACK is the incredibly talented illustrator of several books for children, including the Galaxy Zack series, Toads on Toast (also with Linda Bailey), and 1 Zany Zoo. He also works as a story artist and character designer at Dreamworks and has been involved in such productions as Hotel Transylvania, Grossology and Ed, Edd n Eddy. View titles by Colin Jack

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If you happen to have a dinosaur, lying around your living room, and you don't know what to do with it ... why don't you use it as a can opener? It will make a terrific nutcracker too! There are oodles of uses for a dinosaur -- from a fine umbrella to an excellent kite and a dandy pillow, not to mention a reliable burglar alarm and the perfect excuse to forget your homework. This delightfully absurd exploration of the domestic uses of dinosaurs -- and the things dinos just aren't good for at all -- is guaranteed to tickle funny bones and spark imaginations. If you read carefully, you'll learn how to make your dinosaur last a very long time.

Awards

  • NOMINEE | 2016
    Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award

Author

© Maurice Verkaar
LINDA BAILEY has written nearly forty books for children, including The Three Little Mittens, Carson Crosses Canada, Princesses Versus Dinosaurs and If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and have won multiple awards such as the Ontario Blue Spruce and Silver Birch Awards, the California Young Reader Medal, the Georgia Children's Picturebook Award and the UK School Library Association Information Book Award. Linda has been honored for her exceptional body of work in children’s literature with the Vicky Metcalf Award. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. View titles by Linda Bailey
COLIN JACK is the incredibly talented illustrator of several books for children, including the Galaxy Zack series, Toads on Toast (also with Linda Bailey), and 1 Zany Zoo. He also works as a story artist and character designer at Dreamworks and has been involved in such productions as Hotel Transylvania, Grossology and Ed, Edd n Eddy. View titles by Colin Jack

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