If Dinosaurs Were Cats and Dogs - Softcover

Colin McNaughton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842481290 ISBN 13: 9781842481295

Publisher: Mathew Price Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

The author introduces the reader to the Pigplodicus, the Kangasaur and the Snakeydon, among others. This book is full of familiar animals which have become as big as dinosaurs. The author also wrote "ABC and Things", "123 and Things" and "Who's Been Sitting in My Porridge".

About this title

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 2-- This updated version (Four Winds, 1981; o.p.) is more than revised; it contains a completely different text and new or reworked art. In the earlier book, each illustration was accompanied by a four-line poem that described how silly it would be if the world were inhabited by dinosaur-sized hens, cats, frogs, etc. McNaughton has given each animal a name (pigplodicus, chickasaur, snakeydon), but much of the humor has been lost. The appeal of the original version adapted by Alice Low was in reading about eggs winding up scrambled when laid from the height of a giant hen or in people skiing down the shell of a giant tortoise. Here the chickasaurs ``let fly'' with their eggs and ``The Tortosaur's a carnivore--/ He'll have your guts for starters!'' The text, previously succinct and gentle, now goes for meaningless action--the animals want to fight or eat the humans; while it's hardly harmful and is intended to be funny, it's just unnecessary. The exaggerated cartoons are sketchy and in some instances clever, but since most of them were in the original version, it's a mystery why McNaughton decided to revise an old favorite. This giant disappointment lands with a colossal thud. --Christine A. Moesch, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, NY
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mathew Price Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1842481290
• ISBN 13: 9781842481295
• Binding: Paperback