A Reader’s High: Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast

Friday, October 12, 2007.

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Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast Author: Jack Prelutsky (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Arnold Lobel
Published: 1988 Harper Trophy (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0688115691

Full of meaty words, infectious beats and fact*-based blackish humour, this invigorating feast of illustrated, dinosaur poems is permanently woven into the fabric of our family.

*The facts upon which the poems are based are twenty years out-of-date — but what’s twenty years between 225 million year old friends?

Filed under: Ages 0-3, Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, All ages, Cartoony, Fun, Fun, Humour, Non-Fiction, Picture book, Podcast, Poetry, Realistic, Review, Review of the Week, Rhyming, Science, Medicine, Math

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