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Dinosaur Kisses

by David Ezra Stein


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Dinosaur Kisses

by David Ezra Stein

Review posted January 21, 2014.
Candlewick Press, 2013. 32 pages.
Starred Review

Reading this book makes me want to immediately do a toddler storytime. It's got so many elements to make toddlers giggle: Kisses, dinosaurs, and stomping, chomping, and whomping.

Dinah is a baby dinosaur who discovers she likes stomping (STOMP!) and chomping (CHOMP!). Then she sees a kiss and wants to try that. There's a lovely and oh-so-frightening page as she sets off: "Who can I kiss?"

She doesn't get it right. Cue lots of toddler giggles.

"I will kiss you!"

WHOMP!

"Whoops," said Dinah.

Even I laughed out loud when I first read these pages:

"This time, if I'm really, really careful and I only use my lips . . .

then I can do it!

"I will kiss you!"

[page turn]

But she ate him.

"Whoops," said Dinah. "Not good."

It all ends with silly happiness when Dinah finds a newly hatched dinosaur like herself who has the same ideas about kisses.

A wonderful, whomping, stomping romp!