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How Do Dinosaurs...?
How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?
The bestselling, award-winning team of Yolen and Teague present their second original dinosaur board book, a playful "how-to" tale about making a mess and then cleaning it up. Come along for some BIG fun as your favorite dinosaurs learn to pick up and put away their toys. How do dinosaurs clean their rooms? With trash cans and dusters and brooms!Now Jane Yolen's playful, read-aloud text and Mark Teague's hilarious illustrations show your own little dinosaurs just how fun and easy it can be. Brimming with the same infectious humor as the other HOW DO DINOSAURS tales, this new board book is a perfect companion to the immensely popular picture books and a great baby gift as well.
6 pages, Board Book
First published September 1, 2004
About the author
Jane Yolen
941 books3,120 followersJane Yolen is a novelist, poet, fantasist, journalist, songwriter, storyteller, folklorist, and children’s book author who has written more than three hundred books. Her accolades include the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Awards, the Kerlan Award, two Christopher Awards, and six honorary doctorate degrees from colleges and universities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Born and raised in New York City, the mother of three and the grandmother of six, Yolen lives in Massachusetts and St. Andrews, Scotland.
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November 4, 2011
This picture book is intended for primary and possibly intermeadiate. It is a story told in rhyme about how these dinos could misbehave but how they don't and the proper way to act. The illustrations have different kinds of dinosaurs on each page and written underneath is the proper name of the dinosaur, I only wish pronunciation was in the back. This is a series of stories that teach kids manner and how to act in a fun way but by showing the bad behavior first, then how to properly behave. The colors are subtle and not too over the top. The dinos are shown in real human behaviors which is funny because their parents are not dinos too, they are human parents. I think it is a good way to teach manners and proper dinosaur names in the same sitting, if you can figure out how to pronounce them.
February 17, 2021
This book was a really cute book that has dinosaurs showing the proper way to clean their rooms. I think this book is a good way to show kids how to clean their rooms and how it is not as bad as they may think. I really enjoyed reading this book and how it show children the proper ways to clean their rooms and not just shove things under their beds and in their closets.
May 8, 2021
Cute book on the responsibility of doing your chores. Great illustrations and I liked that the names of the dinosaurs were mentioned on each page.
May 2, 2023
Hilarious illustrations and fun rhymes could persuade any little Dino to pick up after themselves.
January 28, 2018
What drives me crazy about these books is how the dinosaurs are always doing the wrong things for more than half the book before they do what they're supposed to. My kids seem to like the wrong things best lol.
December 25, 2013
I love the premise but think it could stand a bit more content. The plot was heart warming and the message was instructive but I wish they went into more cleaning detail. Overall 4 stars.
April 18, 2018
One of kids most disliked activites: cleaning their rooms! I know when I was a kid, cleaning my room was something I absolutely dreaded. I definitely used some of the bad tactics shown in the book, like shoving everything under my bed or into my closet. It is important to teach students that cleaning their room is not only necessary, but it is not as big a deal as they usually make it out to be. I like that the book showed the bad cleaning habits as something you should not do, and then turned around and gave actual ideas for good ways to quickly clean up (throwing away small pieces of trash and putting dirty clothes into a hamper). A fun activity related to the book could be to mess up the classroom while students are out at recess, and then when they come back ask them to help clean it up just like the dinosaurs did in the book we read. It would tie the book into a real life activity and it would be a fun way to get students involved in the classroom and have them form good habits. I would use this book in K-3rd grade classrooms.
November 30, 2022
Readers can resonate with this book with the fact that it is silly yet it is teaching a valuable lesson. Dinosaur is learning how to clean his room and the ends and outs of what is acceptable and what is not. This read aloud would be beneficial for those who have complex support needs and are learning life skills. In response to this reading, students can look at pictures, cut them out, and paste on a paper (that is cut out the look like a room) what a clean room looks like
November 28, 2018
Story for my little one, just prior to school's book character parade during Halloween. He enjoyed the book on how Dinosaurs can clean their rooms, a very great way to show to kids that everyone can help a little with house chores, how to be clean, responsible and organized. A happy mom, a happy dinosaur and a clean house/room.
After reading the book, he was ready for book character parade.
After reading the book, he was ready for book character parade.
February 23, 2020
How Do Dinosaurs books are a fun series of books for your dinosaur loving young reader. The rhyming text, variety of dinosaurs, and the classic illustration of the parents make this a fun book to read. Quite a few of these books have had my husband and I laughing out loud or remembering a time the exact same thing has happened in our home.
June 12, 2022
From the How Do Dinosaurs...series, this book is more about ways to clean up a messy bedroom than about dinosaurs. Yolen cleverly uses young children's interest in dinosaurs to get them to read this book which uses rhymed verse to show both good and bad strategies for cleaning a room -- a good teaching tool for young children.
May 17, 2018
Cute, short, rhyming story of ways to “clean” and ways to clean! Friends laughed along, saying no to all the silly ways of cleaning and seemed satisfied with the ending. The whole collection of these books are entertaining.
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June 14, 2018How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms? is a fun read. It includes some "dinosaur" talk and then what the appropriate talk would be. This series focuses on manners and why it is important to have them. This book is good to developing a vocabulary to get students to express their emotions.
January 22, 2024
First time reading with my toddler. He loved it immediately! Even during the book he would say “mommy that dinosaur is being naughty he needs to listen to his mommy and clean his room!” Haha cute book!
December 24, 2017
Love all her books
September 1, 2020
As a Special Education teacher, I can't wait to share this book with my students who are obsessed with dinosaurs.
October 20, 2020
Quiero un dinosaurio 🥺
December 21, 2020
A good book to inspire dino fans to help clean, with the names of the dinos as well. Cute and silly.
March 16, 2021
Read the braille copy from Seedlings. Great little story.
November 15, 2021
My kids love these books! They’re silly yet educational. I imagine kids who love dinosaurs would especially like these, but they’re fun for any kids!
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November 26, 2021Emmett
August 28, 2022
We love all these Dinosaur books. This is another great book. Children see themselves in dino-riffic ways and learn to respect their space by keeping tidy.
December 13, 2022
Super cute book! Good for teaching kids how to follow a sequence of events and clean their room! Perfect for a life skills classroom!
January 30, 2023
Love this series!
February 6, 2023
Cute, short, and adorably fun!! 🦕
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October 19, 2023It shows how dinosaurs clean their rooms.
April 20, 2024
It's sad because the dinosaurs in this book do a better job of keeping their room clean than I do 🫣
May 30, 2024
Read to my little one. He loved it & enjoyed pointing to everything.
July 12, 2024
The cleaning propaganda was well received primarily because dinos were cleaning and they were initially doing a terrible job.
February 21, 2019
The dinosaurs in this series are awesome and look just like the ones mama got me. Even my annoying sister is suddenly interested in dinosaurs and wanted to read this with us. I'm pretty sure there's a lesson to be learned in these books, but I'm just here for the cool dinosaurs. 🏡🏠
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