T. Rex at Swan Lake - Hardcover

Carrier, Lisa; Hart, Lenore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525471774 ISBN 13: 9780525471776

Publisher: Dutton Children's Books, 2004

Synopsis

Tired of being on display at the Natural History Museum, T. Rex, a dinosaur skeleton, makes her escape and decides to follow her dream, which is to dance on stage in a production of Swan Lake!

About this title

About the Author:

Lisa Carrier lives in Snow Hill, Mary- land. This is her first book.
Lenore Hart is the author of an adult novel, Waterwoman.
Chris Demarest is the award-winning illustrator and author-illustrator of more than one hundred titles, including The New York Times Top Ten Picture Book Firefighters A to Z.

From Booklist:

PreS.-Gr. 1. It's a cruel fate for a female Tyrannosaurus rex, once wild and free, to be stuck inside a natural history museum. One day, the skeletal T. Rex overhears two women talking about the nearby ballet Swan Lake, and she becomes intrigued by the idea of becoming a ballerina. Wrenching her bolted-down toes from the platform, she lumbers toward the exit, past her devoted guard, out the door, and straight to the opera house. Chaos ensues as she dons an extra-large purple tutu and swings dramatically onto the stage for her terrifying, pterodactyl-like ballet debut. But after 32 perfect pirouettes and a tremendous leap, T. Rex earns a standing ovation. Any child who has a dream but feels powerless to achieve it will cheer for T. Rex in this quirky, if somewhat rambling, flight of fancy. Demarest's fluid, sketchy line drawings splashed with watercolor comically capture the bizarre mayhem of an escaped, animated dino skeleton submerged in Swan Lake. Karin Snelson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0525471774
• ISBN 13: 9780525471776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Demarest Chris L.