Dinosaur Farm - Softcover

Frann Preston-Gannon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843652110 ISBN 13: 9781843652113

Publisher: Pavilion Children's Books, 2013

Synopsis

Dinosaur-Farm

About this title

About the Author:

Frann Preston-Gannon is a London-based illustrator who graduated from Kingston University in 2010. In 2011 she was the UK's first recipient of a Sendak Fellowship and spent a month in residence working with the great Maurice Sendak. She was awarded a bronze in the no.8 3x3 Annual of contemporary Illustration for her unpublished children's work. Frann is the author of The Journey Home (9781843652090).

Review:

“First published in the UK in 2013, this day-on-the-farm book takes us through a farmer’s chores from sunup to sunset. There’s one huge factor complicating all the chores: dinosaurs. Not very scary-looking but very big, they have overrun the whole dang farm. The farmer uses the second person to describe his duties, starting with how you have to feed the animals: instead of the expected chicks and ducks and geese crowding around, this time it’s a stampede of stegosauruses chasing the farmer and his yummy bale of hay. Next, the farmer washes the necks of looming allosauruses, shovels a small mountain of triceratops manure, and lugs a steak bigger than himself with a T. rex in full, slavering pursuit. The humor comes from the completely deadpan style of the farmer describing the chores, seemingly oblivious to the huge insects, plants, and dinosaurs surrounding him. The collage illustrations add texture and underscore the humor. Dinosaur-crazed children will love this romp.” —Booklist Online

About this edition

• Publisher: Pavilion Children's Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1843652110
• ISBN 13: 9781843652113
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32