How Do Dinosaurs Books Review

Ever since I was young, books have been a huge part of my life. I have a memory from when I was about five years old walking home from the library with an entire wagon full of books we had checked out. That little wagon sat in our front room where I could pick a book and look through it or my mom would read it to me. Before the week was done, I had looked through all the books at least once. The next week, we took the books back and got another wagon full to bring home. This love of reading has stuck with me all my life. I love getting lost in the world of books. My husband laughs at me because if I'm reading a book, I have no idea what's going on around me.

I'm happy to say that this love of reading has been picked up by my own children. We have all types of books from Dr. Seuss to Sandra Boynton to Sesame Street to Disney. In the last year or so, my son has started to take a special interest in dinosaurs. So when we went to the library last month, I picked up a few books from the How Do Dinosaurs series by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. I'd heard about the series from a friend of mine who has two boys who also like dinosaurs. The moment we got home, my kids pulled all the library books out and asked me to read them. We had borrowed three of the How Do Dinosaurs books and with the exception of Pinkalicious and Fancy Nancy, even my daughter loved reading them.

Illustration from How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague

So why do I love these books? First of all, the illustrations are amazing. The illustrator draws pictures of dinosaurs doing the things he talks about in each of his books (along with the name of it). I'm just as captivated as my kids are. Second, they're educational and promote good behavior. My kids learn lessons about how to behave at school or when they are mad through the use of humor. After only reading the books a handful of times, both my kids could "read" the story based on the pictures.