Dinos Do Dinner! Dino Thanksgiving by Lisa Wheeler

Nobody enjoys a big festive feed of a savory meal more than dinosaurs, and nobody can gobble the roasted gobbler at their family Thanksgiving better than a bunch of prehistoric feasters!

T REX WAKES AT THE CRACK OF DAWN.

IT'S TIME TO PUT THE TURKEY ON!

HE TAKES THE BIRD OUT OF THE BRINE,

SEASONS IT WITH SAGE AND THYME.

IT WON'T BE DONE TILL FIVE,

BUT AT NOON THE GUESTS BEGIN TO ARRIVE.

And into T Rex's house living room they crowd to find a seat, with Compy pleading, "When do we eat?"

The TV is on for the big parade, and then the big championship game is played. The kids head out for the flag football craze. The younger ones race through the neighborhood maze.

But Compy has that plea he can't forget!

"I'M HUNGRY! IS IT TIME TO EAT YET?"

In the kitchen there's shredding and chopping and a big saute'. There's turkey gravy and all the vegetable trimmings on the way. And at last there's a feast for the veggie-saurs and the carni-saurs! Dinner's a hit! T Rex roars...

"COME AND GET IT!"

Family and friends chow down im Lisa Wheeler's Dino-Thanksgiving (Dino-Holidays) (CarolRhoda Books, 2020). Lisa Wheeler is the perfect mistress of rhyming stories, and with the wild and bright illustrations of Barry Gott, this one is a jolly holiday companion to her other DINO tales, and just right to get kids in the mood for the winter holidays with Wheeler and Gott's Dino-Christmas (Dino-Holidays)

Says Publishers Weekly, "... this glimpse of prehistoric reptiles giving thanks should entertain young dinosaur fans."

Snow Play Day: Dino-Christmas by Lisa Wheeler

EVERYONE IS FULL OF CHEER!

Santa Claws has had his applause. Now what can the Dinos do for fun? Wait! LOOK!

FAT FLAKES STICH A QUILT OF WHITE.

PERFECT FOR A SNOWBALL FIGHT.

Campysaurus packs snowballs and flings. T. Rex makes angel wings.

IGUANA SCULPTS DINOSAURS OF SNOW.

ANKYLO FEASTS ON MISTLETOE.

The mischievous Ptero twins' snowballs hit T. Rex with a whack, but then it's time to give them back a smack. It's all in good fun, a day on the run, for the Dino-Kids in a merry snow play until the day is done. Now what?

Soon it'll be time for them all to convene...

To plan their costumes for Halloween?

It's never a dull day with Lisa Wheeler's Dino-Kids, in her Dino-Christmas (Dino-Holidays) (CarolRhoda Books), in a holiday free-for-all in the new snowfall. When they're not mauling each other in football or Dino disco dancing, they can be found in more holiday Dino stories, Dino-Thanksgiving (Dino-holidays) and Dino-Halloween (Dino-Holidays).

Prehistoric Takedowns: Dino-Wrestling by Lisa Wheeler

WHAT'S THE SPORT WE CAME TO SEE?

IT'S THE DINO-WRESTLING JAMBOREE.

ATHLETES TRAVEL MANY MILES.

COMPETE IN IN DIFFERENT WRESTLING STYLES.

It's the Wide World of Dino-Wrestling Olympics--with all forms of wrestling showcased.

There's the no-holds barred Free Style matches, the traditional Folkstyle falls,   the classic Greco-Roman rumbles, the loco Latin Lucha Libre, Tag Team tussles, and for the real heavyweights, the Sumo dinos thump on the dohyo.  There's a match for every fan, and the grunts and thwacks abound with all the takedowns.

Stego takes on T. Rex in Greco-Roman style, while Iguanodon deals with El Diable (Tarbosarus) in Lucho Libre form.  The Pterodactyl Twins soar in Tag Team, and of course the really big bad boys--Triceratops vs. Gigantosaurus--are the bullies of Sumo.

YES! OFFICIALS CALL FOR QUIET.
FANS JOIN IN. NOW IT'S A RIOT!

Lisa Wheeler's latest dino-sport entry, Dino-Wrestling (CarolRhoda Books, 2013), goes to the mat with her comic verses,  and artist Barry Gott's blazing muscular illustrations put the full Nelson on this fun tale for any dinosaur fan, whether they favor wrestling or not.  Wheeler and Gott have all the right moves in their dinosaur sports series, which include Dino-Football (Carolrhoda Picture Books), Dino-Soccer, Dino-basketball, (Carolrhoda Picture Books) and Dino-Baseball and judging from the broad hint on the final page of this one, the coming dino-sport attraction is going to be all about skateboarding.  OLLIE-UP, dino-skate fans!

Cretaceous Sluggers: Dino-Baseball by Lisa Wheeler

THREE UP, THREE DOWN. NO ONE SCORED.

BASEBALL FANS ARE GETTING BORED.

T-REX IS A GO-TO GUY! WIND IT UP, PIVOT, AND LET IT FLY.

STEGO RUMBLES DOWN THE LINE. COMPY CALLS "THIS ONE IS MINE!"

GLOVES THE BASEBALL, THROWS HIM OUT. THAT'S WHAT BASEBALL'S ALL ABOUT!

What's better than a summer baseball game? How about a battle royal between those kings of the Cretaceous, the rock'em, sock'em, sluggin' dinos, featuring those rivals of the era, the meat-eating Rib-Eye Reds vs. the plant-loving Green Sox.

In Lisa Wheeler's Dino-Baseball ) (Carolrhoda Books, 2010) it's a prehistoric play-by-play down at Jurassic Park as T-Rex goes toe to toe with Triceratops and Raptor tries to trounce Troodon in a slugfest that could have been heard all the way back to the Tertiary period.

GREEN SOX NEED TO CHANGE THE SCORE,
THEIR ONLY HOPE, APATOSAUR.
HE'S AT THE PLATE,
HE SETS HIS STANCE.
STRIKE ONE, STRIKE TWO!
ONE MORE CHANCE!

The fans go wild! Who will win the battle of the big beasts? Well, when these two teams clash, it's always a monster mash. Wheeler and her illustrator Barry Gott know how to let the tension build until the thrilling climax, as they proved in their earlier dino-sports thrillers, Dino-Hockey (Carolrhoda Picture Books) and just right for World Cup time, Dino-Soccer. Wheeler knows how to pitch those Cretaceous couplets with the best of the rhyme team, while Barry Gott's robust raptors burst with prehistoric power. And on their final pages of their latest contest, there's a hint that there is yet another Jurassic showdown, this time on the basketball court, in the works.

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