Re: children's literature

[Derek Tearne <derek@iconz.co.nz>]

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> This message would be mostly for elementary educators.
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> I just found the neatest children's book about dinosaurs and I though I would
> pass it along. "Brother Billy Bronto's Bygone Blues Band" by David F. 
> Birchman.
> The illustrations are far from accurate but the text offers an ficticious yet
> amusing explination to the alledged disappearance of the dinosaurs.

The best book I've ever seen for small children is 'Count-a-surus'
by (from memory) Nancy Blumenthal.

Cute pictures and a rather good 'apeend-a-saurus' at the back.


Derek "One Stegosaurus standing in the sun, Two compsagnathus always on the 
run..." Tearne

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Some of the more environmentally aware dinosaurs were worried about the  
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.