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32 pp.
| Simon/Aladdin |
January, 2010 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4169-8938-7$15.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Ben Cort.
Finally, a sound explanation for dinosaurs' extinction: their obsession with cavemen's underpants led to "a great briefs tug-of-war," during which the dinos were done in. It's all so hilariously ridiculous that readers won't mind if Freedman's rhymes sometimes lose the beat. Cort employs some fierce colors in his amusing illustrations of underwear-clad men and beasts.