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Dinosaur Pet
Dinosaur Pet
Performed by: Neil Sedaka   Lyrics by: Marc Sedaka   Illustrated by: Tim Bowers
Product Code: 
40367
ISBN: 
978-1-936140-36-7
Binding Information: Hardback w/CD 
Ages: 
4  - & up
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Price: $17.95
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I love, I love, I love my little dinosaur pet.

Some kids have puppies. Others have cats. But in this entertaining story, a little boy cherishes something bigger and better: his own pet dinosaur! Neil Sedaka joins his son Marc in this fresh, funny, child-friendly take on his hit song "Calendar Girl."

From a little egg, out comes the most appealing child-size dino with a wonderful friendly smile. But month by month, he gets bigger and wider and longer and taller. Soon, he’s eating the family out of house and home, the bed is sagging under his weight, and the ceiling is too low. But no matter how giant the dinosaur grows, nothing gets between a boy and his pet.

With its witty rhyming lyrics, amusing and gloriously colorful illustrations, and a catchy, irresistible tune on the included CD, kids will be reading, singing, and dancing—and wishing for their own dinosaur pet.

This book is good for your brain because:
Self-extending reader, poetry, rhythm and rhyme, sing-along


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If you like this book, you'll love these:
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  • When You Wish Upon a Star
  • Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  • Dancing with the Dinosaurs

  • Reviews
      Kirkus Reviews - March 1, 2012
    Sedaka rewrites "Calendar Girl" for the Stone Age set.

    Neil's son, Marc, reworks the lyrics of his father's famous song. Endpapers show a happy little boy sliding down a dinosaur's tail, and title page depicts him lugging a big purple egg down the street as a puzzled pooch looks on. "I love, I love, I love / my dinosaur pet," the text begins, offering 13 additional bright two-page pictures (one for each month and a bonus). In January, the egg hatches: "[H]e's breaking out of his shell." Then February: "His body's starting to swell." (He's bright green with purple stripes.) And so it goes through the year, with the dinosaur growing bigger and bigger. In April, "when he sleeps with me / he crushes the bed." In July, "like the fireworks, / he touches the sky." September, "just the tail alone is / thirty feet long." And December, "come the new year, things are / gonna get rough." The final picture has the little boy seated at a piano, which the dinosaur is large enough to wrap all the way around, head and tail crossing. The dinosaur, the illustrations and the book itself are all appropriately big, and it's hard to beat the catchiness of the tune. The accompanying CD features this track for children and two more all performed by Neil Sedaka.

    Sure to get toddlers and early readers dancing.

      Publishers Weekly - March 5, 2012
    In this follow-up to Neil Sedaka's Waking Up Is Hard to Do, Sedaka fils reimagines his father's 1961 hit "Calendar Girl" as the story of a boy who hatches a dinosaur egg in his bedroom in January and revels in the ups and downs of the creature's companionship for the rest of the year: "March, at least eight times a day he's go to be fed./ April, when he sleeps with me he crushes the bed." There are rumblings that this relationship can't go on forever ("August, the cost of groceries is bleeding us dry") but the duo shows no signs of breaking up (á la Danny and the Dinosaur). Bowers (Dream Big, Little Pig!) works in lusciously hued, brushstroke-textured spreads, and his comedy is nicely underplayed--Dinosaur Pet is a well-meaning, eager-eyed behemoth who's game for vigorous tooth brushing and wearing a King Kong mask at Halloween, and who tries his best not to smash up the house with his enormous tail. The text isn't much without the accompanying music CD, which has an infectious piano shuffle and Neil Sedaka sounding as boyish as ever.