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40 pp.
| Harcourt |
September, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-15-204609-7$$16.00
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Howard Fine.
Six dinosaurs set sail with great bravado but have trouble when a storm hits. "They dinosault like Ping-Pong balls, / Bumping dinorumps and walls." After becoming spectacularly seasick, they decide to forsake sailing and become train enthusiasts instead. Lund may overuse the "dino" prefix, but her bouncy rhyme will elicit chuckles, and the in-your-face illustrations are well suited to their preposterous subject.