Dinosaur Kisses
by David Ezra Stein
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!
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