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Review #14460 - Dated: 10th of July, 2015 Author: kymmage |
From the same artistic team that brought us, How does the Giraffe get to Work? The Tyranno-Sort -of-Rex book looked exciting right from the first glance at the cover art. The minty aqua green background helps the white of the T-Rex skull stand out heaps as the focal point. Then the little curator in his red coat stands as if about to do battle with his hammer. When I showed this to my daughters both of them were very excited by the art on the cover and keen to have it read to them.
My youngest daughter was a bit fidgety for the first two pages, but once the prose started it's repetitive beat and illustrative reveal, she was completely hooked. She loved to see what the curator did with the piles of dinosaur bones and what he was building on each page. There were lots of giggles and pointing at each mistake she spotted as well.
For my eldest, she took the book very seriously right from the start. I think the rhyming of the prose really helped to draw her in, and it was really fun to read. But it was the reveals that she was most interested in. She played a game of spot the issues on each reveal. She didn't laugh as much, because she wanted to help the curator get things right. When the final reveal happens, she slapped a hand to her forehead and said "Oh no!". We talked about doing our best and how tired the poor guy probably was, which helped her see things a different way too.
The only thing I struggled with in this book was pronouncing curator. I really have never been able to say it properly on first go. And this was like just about every page, asking me to say it. My kids didn't notice my struggle. Though for my eldest, as she struggles with reading, I told her I was struggling with the word. I did that so she could see that I felt self-conscious but that I kept trying as well. She did parrot back many confidence boosting sentences at me as I went. Aside from "curator", I really liked this book a lot and so did my kids.
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