The Smallest Stegosaurus - Hardcover

Sweat, Lynn; Phillips, Louis

3.7

30 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670838659 ISBN 13: 9780670838653

Publisher: Viking Juvenile, 1993

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Although he is small and sometimes afraid of the other bigger dinosaurs, a young Stegosaurus finds a way to help his family.

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From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 3-- This quiet book invites readers to share a young stegosaurus's world. Amid dragonflies and spiders floating in the warm air, this youngster hides from Pterodactyls, runs from an Allosaurus, helps to guard a new egg, warns his parents of an oncoming Ornitholestes, and welcomes a baby sister. Sweat's pencil drawings with oil wash bring the cartoonlike drawings to life. The book presents prehistoric facts in an entertaining fashion that will be truly accessible to its intended audience. However, the anthropomorphized stegosaurus will add confusion, for he ". . . wanted to be big and strong," among other sentiments. For a story, this title is very factual; for nonfiction, it's fictionalized. While this may bother adult readers, it will not be a barrier for young listeners. Add it if more picture books on dinosaurs are needed. --Carolyn Noah, Central Mass. Regional Library System, Worcester, MA
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From Publishers Weekly:

Employing a simple fictional framework, this duo offers a friendly and informative introduction to the dinosaur age. As he awakens with his parents one bright day 150 million years ago, a diminutive Stegosaurus feels "quite helpless in the big world." The young fellow is frightened by the Pterodactyls flying overhead, the Allosaurus that tries to crush him with its giant foot and the Ornitholestes that attempts to steal the egg that the Stegosaurus parents have buried in the sand. When the egg hatches, the "no-longer-smallest" Stegosaurus welcomes his baby sister, whom he introduces to a world of "smoking volcanoes, giant ferns, inland seas, gigantic trees, stars, oceans." While making use of soft pastel shades, Sweat's pencil drawings boast an unusual clarity and dimension, depicting the various dinosaur species realistically yet benignly. Ages 2-5.
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