How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors?

How Do Dinosaurs...?

by Jane Yolen, Mark Teague (Illustrator)

The bestselling, award-winning team of Yolen and Teague present their third original dinosaur board book, a fun read-aloud that teaches children all the colors of the rainbow. Dinosaur colors start with red fire truck stuck under the bed,A purple towel left on the floor,A green sign taped to the closet door,The third board book by the bestselling, award-winning duo Jane Yolen and Mark Teague focuses on one of the most fun concepts learned in colors. Packed with vibrant illustrations of dinosaurs drawing, painting, and playing, this book will captivate and inspire children as they learn their colors.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Dinosaurs, Animals, Fantasy, Fiction, Kids

12 pages, Board Book

First published September 1, 2006

About the author

Jane 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.

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easily the best book I've read about how dinosaurs learn their colors.

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

My son was bored by it and fell asleep just a few pages in. I, on the other hands, was enthralled. So many twists, and what an ending! (No spoilers, I promise)

In other news, I've found a way to "reach" my 50-book goal for 2017

[Laura McLoughlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Summer reading prize!

[Skylar Burris · Rating 3 out of 5]

They're really milking How Do Dinosaurs Clean Up Their Rooms for everything it's worth. This is cute, but it is not the most useful book for learning colors I have encountered. For that purpose, I've yet to find anything that beats Brown Bear, Brown Bear.

[Jesse Burdette · Rating 5 out of 5]

I knew all my color words except black -Jesse

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

That Amargasaurus is a little piggy.

[Jamie Jessup · Rating 5 out of 5]

What I liked about this book is, unlike in the counting book How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten, the concept that the reader is supposed to learn is made very clear through the text and the illustrations. The text references the colored object on the page, but the name of the color is also printed in that color, so students know what they are looking for and can make those important connections between the name of the color, the color itself, and what it looks like on an object. I think a fun activity to do with this book would be to read it aloud in class and then give students little sticky notes with a name and color on them, and then have the students stick it to something in the classroom that is that color. I would be and effective way to apply the information in the book, and it would get students up and moving. I would use this book in kindergarten and first grade classrooms.

[Slayermel · Rating 3 out of 5]

My daughter brought this one home from the school library as one of her home reading books.
It's a board book with colourful pictures of different dinosaurs doing things with different colours.
The spelling of the colours is actually written in the colour itself, which was great for her to try and read a little more independently.

Great book for children who also enjoy dinosaurs as it had a few different species in it.

[Sarahs Reads ToKids · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Rachel Guy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Children love dinosaurs and they'll love this book showing dinosaurs in the kinds of places children go: bedroom, bathroom, kitchen table, etc. as well as teach children their colors: e.g. "red fire truck", "purple towel", "green sign". To top it off, this book has a lovely rhyming scheme as well which will make it fun to read to children over and over again!

[Andrés · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a departure from the standard "How do Dinosaurs" books, which usually describe doing things the "wrong" way for the first half, then describe things the "right" way for the second half. There is no right or wrong way to learn colors, so the dinosaurs just march through the ROYGBPs (out of order), plus white, black, and a rainbow to wrap things up.

[Eva_Amaré · Rating 3 out of 5]

If the purpose of this book is to teach us colours, it's not doing a very good job. Now on the other hand, if the purpose of this book is to introduce us to new and really cool dinosaurs, then job very well done. 👍👍

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

We love all of these books!

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has been my favorite of the series so far.

[Manu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Leila: 0: because I don’t like baby books

[Alicia Evans · Rating 3 out of 5]

For: dinosaurs fans; readers looking for a playful book about colors with lots of different dinosaurs.

Possible red flags: messiness/some misbehaving.

[Kristen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute pictures, but the color examples were so small in some of them. May or may not get for Baby Girl.

[Janice · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dinosaurs learn their colors around the house. Would have been better if in English also for those beginning learners.

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maddie picked this from the library and read it to Kait and I.

[Karine Lelièvre · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a great and simple picture book about colors and a lot of children's favorite creature, The dinosaurs. I would use this for a story time anytime

[Tanya Ouellette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful book for children. The inclusion of the dinosaurs was really well thought out.

[Ginger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another “How do Dinosaurs…” hit with all 3 of my kids. Another cute board book memorized…

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really cute fun book about colors.

Gave to Zach hub.

[Brianna Shrout · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute way to teach both colors and some dinosaurs! I loved how the focus was more on the colors and the dinosaurs were secondary. Will definitely be a reread!

[Michela · Rating 1 out of 5]

are you saying my GORG daughter is a dignasaur

[Wendy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I adore Jane Yolen. I adore her books.
Our SPED kids weren't too impressed. But I liked it.

[Courtney · Rating 2 out of 5]

This color book involves dinosaurs and includes ten common colors. I love that this is a board book, that it incorporates dinosaurs, and the rhyming. However, this book could definitely use some changes.

For being a color book, the colors are not very evident on the pages. The first page reads, "Dinosaur colors start with red: A red fire truck tucked under the bed," and the only red on the page is the word "red" and a small fire truck way on the left side of the book. The entire page is taken up by a tyrannosaurus rex laying down. The next page reads "a purple towel left on the floor," and the only purple on the page is the word "purple" and the towel. I think children will have a hard time seeing which color is which solely by looking at the pictures.

I feel that there are better color books and better dinosaur books so I wouldn't recommend this particular book to anyone.

[Meg McGregor · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of a series of books with dinosaurs exploring their environment and learning new skills.

This one is about dinosaurs who learn their colors.

They learn RED like the RED fire truck tucked under the bed....

a PURPLE towel left on the floor...

a GREEN sign taped to the bedroom door...

a BLUE robe thrown across two chairs...

a PINK ball bouncing down the stairs....

YELLOW bananas right by a plate...

BROWN circles all around a date...

WHITE chalk marks on an old black slate...

and an ORANGE backpack -- don't be late!

It is a cute book but not one that I would willingly read more than once.

But my little ones love it so I do read it - over and over again!

[The Badger · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love these dinosaur books. When I have "book-dates" with younger students for good behavior, I may possibly maybe sort of kind of lead them towards either the dinosaur books or the Skippy John Jones books.

[Tim Roast · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a simple rhyming book covering common colours, with well-drawn full-colour pictures of dinosaurs to accompany the text. Also knowing how to pronounce all the different dinosaur names is not necessary for being able to read the story, although the names can be learnt separately too as they are cleverly incorporated into the background pictures of each picture plus there is an opening page with some of them on.

This book is therefore most suitable for pre-schoolers who like dinosaurs, as long as they don't mind them carrying backpacks and doing human things.