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32 pp.
| Sterling |
April, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4549-1491-4$14.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Jonny Lambert.
Each of eleven creatures describes its particularities (e.g., "I look just like an elephant / with fur and tusks so elegant"), but all conclude with a chastening "I am not a dinosaur!" (The non-elephant is a woolly mammoth.) While enjoying the tight riddle-rhymes and cut-paper art imbuing each creature with personality, readers may not realize they're learning something. More about the creatures is appended. Timeline.