Back to School: How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague

How does a dinosaur
go to school?
Does he walk?
Does he ride
in a busy car pool?

In the eighth in their popular How Do Dinosaurs...? series, Yolen and Teague tackle the all important subject of school behavior. Would dinosaurs--large, burly, and scary--turn out to be the tyrant kings of schoolyard bullies? Would dinosaurs punch and roughhouse and terrorize smaller students? Would they make it hard for everyone else to learn in the classroom?

Well, Yolen and Teague tease us with some bright-colored dinosaurs that LOOK like they would be nothing but trouble for teachers and classmates--taunting the girls and picking on all the boys--but NO! In bouncy rhythm and rhyme, we learn that a dinosaur would "growl at the bullies 'til the bullying ends" and even tidy up his desk before he makes for the door at the last bell, ready for the last word in praise at home--"Good work, little dinosaur!"

Teague's illustrations of various lesser-known dinosaurs (see endpapers for identification) are as eye-catching and jazzy as ever in this picture book which is just perfect for the first day of school!