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Dino-Sports
Dino-Baseball
When the plant-eating Green Sox face the meat-eating Rib-Eye Reds, baseball will never be the same. Tied zip to zip, the game is a pitchers' duel until the Green Sox's hothead manager goes snout to snout with the dodo umpire and gets tossed out. The Sox respond with their veggie-powered bats and score three runs! Momentum swings back to the Reds before the seventh inning stretch, and they're all tied up in the bottom of the ninth. Will this game need extra innings, or will Apatosaur save the day?Book Library BindingPublication 4/1/2010 32Reading Age 5 and Up
32 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 2010
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April 25, 2011
Kids love dinosaurs and kids love baseball - so they adored this rhyming book about the plant eating dinosaurs of the Green Sox vs the carnivores of the Rib-eye Reds, played at Jurassic Park, of course! With colorful illustrations and lots of baseball action (even a team manager who "throws his hat and kicks home plate...he calls the ump a nasty name and gets ejected from the game.) This is a book that appeals to very young kids because of the rhythm and rhyme, dinosaur players and bright, colorful illustrations. Because of the vocabulary and game descriptions it appeals to the adults in the group as well as preschoolers.
April 16, 2013
Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott create another amazing children’s book involving dinosaurs playing a sport. This time the Green Sox are playing the Rib-Eye Reds. The text follows a rhyming scheme that describes the atmosphere of the Jurassic Park and highlights common themes related to baseball. The illustrations are once again full of life and bright colors. I really enjoyed the detailed illustrations and how you could see the different expressions on the dinosaurs face. Another aspect of this story that I loved was how the author introduces the different types of dinosaurs while creating a wonderful rhyming story. As a person who loves both dinosaurs and baseball, I absolutely adored this book. I would include this picture book in my classroom because of the rhyming scheme, wonderful illustrations, and its connection with baseball which will intrigue children to pick it up and read it.
February 18, 2020
I love this series! The rhyming is super creative and engaging! It is also very educational--both about the sport as well as the different kinds of dinosaurs. The illustrations are extremely detailed and humorous. Our son reads these books over and over again.
March 17, 2016
The illustrations captivated the kids at my school from the first moment the book arrived. “Oooh,” the kids squealed. “Dinosaurs! And baseball! Can I check it out?!”
January 22, 2013
Basic Plot: A wild dinosaur baseball game play-by-play!
This was a fun book to read to my little boy. He likes dinosaurs (what little boy doesn't? At least to some degree?). The only trick is that he doesn't yet know baseball well enough to appreciate the references to the game. I enjoyed them, though, so I suppose that counts for something. The art in the book was good, with lots of details in the drawings to discuss with little ones. If the book has a flaw, it's that the book was so fun to read it riled up my little man before bed instead of getting him ready to sleep!
This was a fun book to read to my little boy. He likes dinosaurs (what little boy doesn't? At least to some degree?). The only trick is that he doesn't yet know baseball well enough to appreciate the references to the game. I enjoyed them, though, so I suppose that counts for something. The art in the book was good, with lots of details in the drawings to discuss with little ones. If the book has a flaw, it's that the book was so fun to read it riled up my little man before bed instead of getting him ready to sleep!
August 22, 2016
I've talked before about Lisa Wheeler's dino books. They're so good! Christopher selected Dino-Baseball on Tuesday night because he needed a book about dinosaurs. I read the dinosaur names, but he read everything else until we hit his 15 minutes. Then I read the last couple of pages.
He has renewed interest in this series and keeps asking when Dino-Racing will be out - October, but we already have it pre-ordered.
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He has renewed interest in this series and keeps asking when Dino-Racing will be out - October, but we already have it pre-ordered.
http://www.momsradius.com/2016/07/juv...
February 2, 2016
This series is a fun idea, but somehow is lacking in the execution. My boy listened all the way through but was disappointed in the end.
What I liked:
- The prose has a good rhythm and rhyme.
- Long dinosaur names are shortened making it easier to pronounce the names.
- The artwork is fun and illustrates the story well.
What I didn't like:
- Requires a certain amount of knowledge of the rules of baseball to understand the book.
- The story lacks a flow. Felt like I'd skipped a page a couple of times when I hadn't.
What I liked:
- The prose has a good rhythm and rhyme.
- Long dinosaur names are shortened making it easier to pronounce the names.
- The artwork is fun and illustrates the story well.
What I didn't like:
- Requires a certain amount of knowledge of the rules of baseball to understand the book.
- The story lacks a flow. Felt like I'd skipped a page a couple of times when I hadn't.
July 25, 2014
And I thought "Dino-Hockey" was great! Really? The Green Sox? And the Green Monster? And the mascot, though not named, looks a lot like, hmmm, Wally? AWESOME!!! The home runs, bases loaded, manager ejection, all great details of baseball. Adding in the patriotism of the dinos, and the traditional Seventh Inning song break....really, I can't stop grinning. Go SOX!!!
November 8, 2018
Genre: Fantasy
Grade: 2nd-5th
Unique Characteristic: I like this book to use with young kids because it has a ton of rhyming and it is very engaging. I think it is better as a read aloud for younger kids because some of the dinosaur names are difficult to pronounce, but I read this with my first graders and they really enjoyed it!
Grade: 2nd-5th
Unique Characteristic: I like this book to use with young kids because it has a ton of rhyming and it is very engaging. I think it is better as a read aloud for younger kids because some of the dinosaur names are difficult to pronounce, but I read this with my first graders and they really enjoyed it!
July 3, 2010
Happened upon this book under new arrivals. Outstanding pictures and a great story - love one that rhymes well. The dinosaurs are wonderful. It inspired me to find more books by this author. Highly recommended.
May 13, 2020
This was a cute story, as all the books in this series are. It kept up a pretty entertaining pace. This is good for the younger elementary level reader, especially boys who would find this very entertaining.
March 10, 2012
Boys love dinosaurs so this ones sure to be a hit! Plus, with the rhyming text and the super exciting illustrations, parents will enjoy reading this one aloud. Great book by the talented Lisa Wheeler!
January 17, 2013
Read this to kindergarten because we needed a baseball-related book and the selection was limited, but I don't think I'd repeat it. I was able to make some of the parts exciting, but overall, there was a lot of narration that would go over the head of any kid who's not dino crazy.
January 19, 2013
This is my little boy's favorite book, along with Dino-Football. I can't tell you how many times I have read this to him (and with him, since he has parts of it memorized). I love it. Such a fun little book.
June 6, 2014
It took me about two pages before I realized that it was Carnivores vs. Herbivores. This book plays out a game between different dinosaurs. I liked the drawings and this book was easy to read. It got my son excited to see which team would win.
December 11, 2018
I like this book because I like baseball so you might know there's baseball on the cover and then the sock mascot jumps up and down and there's a beef mascot (it looks like a beef mascot) and the sock mascot is a sock and the beef mascot is beef!
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May 14, 2010A new favorite of John's - dinosaurs playing his favorite sport. He also really liked Dino-Hockey and we're anxiously awaiting Dino-Soccer from the library.
July 7, 2010
The Green Sox play Rib-Eye Reds at Jurassic Park. After the Green Sox win it will be time for dino-hoops.
July 26, 2010
My son loves this series. These books contain the best marketing...each ends with a page depicting the next dino sport season. My son constantly asks for the next book.
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September 2, 2010fun picture book about dinos playing baseball
September 10, 2010
My 4-year-old loves dinosaurs. He also enjoys playing baseball. Put them together and you've got a happy kid.
June 15, 2011
Never a huge fan of dinosaurs, since they don't exist.
Also baseball is somewhat tedious.
Also baseball is somewhat tedious.
December 19, 2012
A good summer read and you can tie in education programs about both baseball and dinosaurs.
February 21, 2013
Readers who like dinosaurs and baseball will enjoy this story that mixes the two. Pictures connect to the story and the text rhymes.
March 22, 2013
I liked how they used the dinosaurs as a baseball team. Loved the name of the teams too. good book.
May 11, 2015
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June 4, 2016
The four year old child that requested this book to be read picked it because it was about dinosaurs. He really liked the pictures. The story did not keep his attention at all.
August 16, 2016
A great book for the young baseball enthusiast.
December 13, 2016
Not as much happens in this Dino book as the others in the series, but it was still super fun to read! Rhyming lines keep the game moving.
December 29, 2016
What was the point of the part where the coach calls the ump a name? That isn't what I care for my toddler to read about, even if the ump throws out the coach!
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