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How Do Dinosaurs...?
How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten?
How do dinosaurs count to ten? Over and over again! This board book helps readers learn to count from one to ten with a simple, rhyming text and illustrations.
14 pages, Board Book
First published September 1, 2004
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Jane Yolen
938 books3,202 followersJane Yolen is a novelist, poet, fantasist, journalist, songwriter, storyteller, folklorist, and children’s book author who has written more than three hundred books. Her accolades include the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Awards, the Kerlan Award, two Christopher Awards, and six honorary doctorate degrees from colleges and universities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Born and raised in New York City, the mother of three and the grandmother of six, Yolen lives in Massachusetts and St. Andrews, Scotland.
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December 26, 2023
دایناسورها فقط میتونن تا ده بشمارن، چون فقط ده تا انگشت توی دست و پاهاشون دارن 😎
November 20, 2024
A dino-counting book - sure to be a hit with your little paleontologist! This book will hold the attention of your small child for awhile; it is also the perfect definition of a 'pass down' book (a book that an older brother/sister can give to a younger sister/brother and read to them). Lots of fun pictures that go well with the text!
October 14, 2018
I have read a boatload of children’s books lately. Some are mine, which Mom located for me. Others, I just feel are beautiful. Outside of my childhood collection, dipping into baby territory began in appreciation of local authors of all kinds. Now, I feel that all visually and emotionally beautiful books are worth knowing, regardless of their target ages. A niece & nephew finally came into our family, too and I give them several books that I think will thrill them. A new discovery are Americans, Jane Yolen & Mark Teague. Jane resides part-time in Scotland. They published “How Do Dinosaurs Count To Ten?” in 2004 and it is far more sophisticated than this board book looks like it would be.
I was going to give three stars for text and drawings being expectedly simplistic and too brief to say much. I skipped, out of the corner of my eye, camouflaged writing; guessing it was the artist’s signature or copyrighting. I think I would have examined everything at a second reading. An unknown reviewer pointed out that Mark drew actual dinosaur species; not generalized caricature shapes. Most astoundingly: the full scientific names of each dinosaur are embedded on all of these pages! Talk about not dumbing-down a toddler’s shape, colour, and counting exercise. They diversely represent the real prehistoric animals! I was impressed when I was alerted to that.
Familiar household rooms shaken-up with absurdly-oversized creatures, is a fun style and Jane’s humour makes you smile, too. Although she needn’t have chosen Six dirty socks; I love the rest of her rhyming examples! Her input, too, is cleverly and musically educational. Especially the Stegosaurus holding a train: A track, an engine, and seven cars! This unobtrusive book packs a valuable punch. I am keeping mine, for ten handy dinosaur names!
I was going to give three stars for text and drawings being expectedly simplistic and too brief to say much. I skipped, out of the corner of my eye, camouflaged writing; guessing it was the artist’s signature or copyrighting. I think I would have examined everything at a second reading. An unknown reviewer pointed out that Mark drew actual dinosaur species; not generalized caricature shapes. Most astoundingly: the full scientific names of each dinosaur are embedded on all of these pages! Talk about not dumbing-down a toddler’s shape, colour, and counting exercise. They diversely represent the real prehistoric animals! I was impressed when I was alerted to that.
Familiar household rooms shaken-up with absurdly-oversized creatures, is a fun style and Jane’s humour makes you smile, too. Although she needn’t have chosen Six dirty socks; I love the rest of her rhyming examples! Her input, too, is cleverly and musically educational. Especially the Stegosaurus holding a train: A track, an engine, and seven cars! This unobtrusive book packs a valuable punch. I am keeping mine, for ten handy dinosaur names!
April 1, 2010
Big hit, recognizable dinosaur species and a rhyme scheme do a lot to capture Charlotte's attention. She doesn't like generic dinosaurs, she wants to be able to tell you what species it is. A feature I liked of this book is that on every page, the dinosaur species was written somewhere, so you could say, "Actually, babe, that's an apatasaurus, not a brachiasaurus" and look like Dr. Scott the Paleontologist.
January 2, 2014
I think this is my 15 month old's favorite book. While he can't count and doesn't really have a concept of numbers, he DOES understand balls, socks, and balloons (among the other things counted). And the pages have withstood his new teeth somehow. I'm including this in my list because at this point I have it memorized. (Dinosaur counting starts with one, one tattered teddy bear, just for fun ).
December 13, 2016
We love the "How Do Dinosaurs...." series and go back to them often. The little one loves the colorful, humongous dinosaurs but he prefers the bigger books to the little compact ones. He likes looking at them in all their splendor. Solid 4 stars.
July 25, 2013
The last question in this book is "Now that he's counted from one to ten, how does a dinosaur count again?" And the answer, which my son gave when he handed me this book, is "again". Next to "no", "again" and "more" are probably his favorite words. Because this book was written years before he was born, I'm guessing he is not alone in toddler world in favoring that word. And to have it at the end of a counting story, well, that's just perfection for him.
I love, love, love Mark Teague's illustrations (again!). My only complaint would be that he is so brilliant and I am so jealous -- but I can get over that and buy his brilliantly illustrated books.
I love, love, love Mark Teague's illustrations (again!). My only complaint would be that he is so brilliant and I am so jealous -- but I can get over that and buy his brilliantly illustrated books.
July 14, 2014
This is a board book (the edition we got from our library) it's very creative very simple way of teaching children to count up to ten. Fun, it will bring smiles to little faces. Also in small print it has each dinosaur's 'real' name listed so for the older child reading it can learn the names of the dino's. Also each page you can incorporate 'red balloon, blue balloon' 'pictures hangin ON the wall' 'cars IN the dinosaurs hands' so an adult could incorporate many learning things for the toddler-young reader in this book. All in a very fun way!
October 6, 2015
This book is so fun and cute! In it we meet a dinosaurs who is learning to count to ten. The rhymes especially make this a fun read. The vocabulary is simple and age appropriate. Mark Teague illustrated this book and the dinosaurs are incredibly detailed. He depicts the dinosaurs learning to count in similar situations as a child would. This book is perfect for preschool and Kindergarten math lessons. The only complaint I have is that there is no numerals on the pages, just the numbers spelled out.
June 12, 2012
Counting
Jane Yolen continues to cement the regular events in life by adding her wonderfully illustrated dinosaurs. I love these books. They have wonderful applications in classrooms or homes. My son takes his How Do Dinosaurs go to the Doctor when he has to go to the doctor. I enjoy having these books at the fingertips of my students, and me, so when a teachable moment pops up where I can use one they are right there.
Jane Yolen continues to cement the regular events in life by adding her wonderfully illustrated dinosaurs. I love these books. They have wonderful applications in classrooms or homes. My son takes his How Do Dinosaurs go to the Doctor when he has to go to the doctor. I enjoy having these books at the fingertips of my students, and me, so when a teachable moment pops up where I can use one they are right there.
June 16, 2015
It's very important for little dinosaurs to learn to count to ten, and this book helps them learn how in colorful, semi-prehistoric fashion.
This was another fun installment of the HDD series. It wasn't my favorite, and the ending was kind of odd, but it was colorful and amusing. Of course The Boy really seemed to like it, and there were plenty of recognizable things for him to point out and name (even if they weren't always the things being counted).
This was another fun installment of the HDD series. It wasn't my favorite, and the ending was kind of odd, but it was colorful and amusing. Of course The Boy really seemed to like it, and there were plenty of recognizable things for him to point out and name (even if they weren't always the things being counted).
April 14, 2013
This is such a fun book for younger students to learn about counting from 1 to 10. I would implement this book while doing a lesson on counting. We could read the book and then count little dinosaurs from 1-10. For older groups, I would implement this book with ten frames and have the students count by 10s. The illustrations are interesting and engaging for students of all ages.
September 14, 2017
Five enthusiastic stars for this board book! It's got dinosaurs (if you look closely, there's even the full-length names of each one written in small text on the page) and counting! And if you wanted to, you could have a convo with your little one about manners. (Dinosaurs are somewhat bull-in-china-shop.)
October 24, 2013
I really enjoyed this book as well as some other of Yolen's books. I thought the illustrations were great by having all different types of dinosaurs represented. I thought the writing was simple yet engaging for my two year old.
September 7, 2016
I love these dinosaur books. When I have "book-dates" with younger students for good behavior, I may possibly maybe sort of kind of lead them towards either the dinosaur books or the Skippy John Jones books.
April 12, 2018
Children love this Dinosaur collection of different books. It exposes children to counting as well as good behavior. Children can count the different actions the dinosaur does in the book. This is a fun way to gain children's interest in reading, math and social emotional behavior.
August 9, 2017
Love how this book rhymes and makes learning to count fun. My daughter loves pointing things out and laughing at this book.
August 12, 2017
OH YE MONKEYS THIS BOOK EVEN ENDS WITH "AGAIN" IT'S A TRAAAAAAAAAP
(uh, spoiler alert I guess?)
(uh, spoiler alert I guess?)
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December 24, 2017
Love all her books
June 16, 2020
"Now that he's counted from one to ten, how does a dinosaur count again? Again!"
Age: Preschool to 1st grade
Book type: Concept picture book - numbers (1-10)
Summary:
The story follows different types of dinosaurs as they count from one to ten through the pages with various items.
Review:
Oh, this is an adorable book! I love dinosaurs, and I know many kids love dinosaurs (who doesn't love dinosaurs?). The illustrations are really cute, with a different dinosaur species on every page for the numbers. They count from one through ten with various items like teddy bears and trains. Pretty much, the dinosaurs are the kids. In this series, the dinosaurs are stand-ins for children. The dinosaurs always look so happy and do not look out of place on the pages. The only improvement that could be made is on the page for the seven cars. While it is easy to see the seven train cars held by the dinosaur, they are overshadowed by that dinosaur. They don't immediately grab the reader's attention which they need to do. There are a few pages like this where the items being counted are not front and center to attract the eye of a child. If these items were bigger and more attention-grabbing, the book would be perfect.
Age: Preschool to 1st grade
Book type: Concept picture book - numbers (1-10)
Summary:
The story follows different types of dinosaurs as they count from one to ten through the pages with various items.
Review:
Oh, this is an adorable book! I love dinosaurs, and I know many kids love dinosaurs (who doesn't love dinosaurs?). The illustrations are really cute, with a different dinosaur species on every page for the numbers. They count from one through ten with various items like teddy bears and trains. Pretty much, the dinosaurs are the kids. In this series, the dinosaurs are stand-ins for children. The dinosaurs always look so happy and do not look out of place on the pages. The only improvement that could be made is on the page for the seven cars. While it is easy to see the seven train cars held by the dinosaur, they are overshadowed by that dinosaur. They don't immediately grab the reader's attention which they need to do. There are a few pages like this where the items being counted are not front and center to attract the eye of a child. If these items were bigger and more attention-grabbing, the book would be perfect.
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December 2, 2022
Ever seen a dinosaur being able to count up to ten? Well in Jane Yolen's " How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten?" we see different dinosaurs that start with playing with one teddy bear and increase their playtime with playing with ten different children's toys. This book is a great resource to teach students how to count up to ten and give them visuals like pictures of more than one toy to induce number sense within a child. This is a cute, fun story that teaches students how to count up in an easy and fun way involving a child's favorite object: toys! I would use this book as a resource if I had a student that struggled with counting and number sense/ cardanility to help them understand associating a number when touching an object. I also think this would be a great book to use when teaching students about number order like one teddy bear and seven toy trains to name an example. I 10/10 recommend using this book in your math classes to help students understand number order, carnality, and number sense! I hope to gain some paleontologists after them reading this story about the dinosaur counting up to ten.
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September 21, 2023How do Dinosaurs Count to 10 is another one of the books that I loved to read while I was growing up. It is a book written by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague that is about as the title says how dinosaurs count. I remember reading this book and loving it as a child as there were a bunch of cool dinosaurs doing everyday things that I did like playing with toy trains and cars. The book is about a group of dinosaurs that have been personified and are doing everyday tasks that a normal child may do such as going under the bed, playing with blocks, balloons, and even toy trains. The book explores the main theme of numbers and counting as through the book, as the reader gets to look at what each dinosaur is doing, they also count the number of things that the dinosaur has such as the number of socks under the bed and the number of toy cars and trains that they are playing with. It also counts up from one through ten this way, teaching kids how to count in order from one to ten. The secondary reading that immediately came to my head as once again the nursery rhymes that we read in and out of class as there is a rhyming scheme through the story.
April 17, 2024
Intended Audience: The intended audience for this book is children in preschool and early elementary school.
Key Themes & Topics: Some key themes throughout this book are counting, learning through play, good behavior, and interactive learning. In this book, children will count from 1 to 10. This book uses playful scenarios involving dinosaurs to teach children about counting and numbers. This book also emphasizes positive behavior and manners while learning to count. This book also engages students in discussing the dinosaurs' pictures and actions.
Why This Book: I chose this book as a way to incorporate math and reading into one subject. This would be a good book to read aloud to students and have them engage in a counting activity with the dinosaurs as a class. I love this book because counting with animals or objects that we are familiar with can help us to remember certain things such as counting.
Key Themes & Topics: Some key themes throughout this book are counting, learning through play, good behavior, and interactive learning. In this book, children will count from 1 to 10. This book uses playful scenarios involving dinosaurs to teach children about counting and numbers. This book also emphasizes positive behavior and manners while learning to count. This book also engages students in discussing the dinosaurs' pictures and actions.
Why This Book: I chose this book as a way to incorporate math and reading into one subject. This would be a good book to read aloud to students and have them engage in a counting activity with the dinosaurs as a class. I love this book because counting with animals or objects that we are familiar with can help us to remember certain things such as counting.
April 18, 2018
I thought this book was cute and I understand how it could help some students with their counting, but I think it would have been more useful if the number of each object was actually visible on the page instead just having the word for each number and the picture. If the number was included on the page, students would be able to connect the number itself, the name, and the physical representation all at the same time which is really useful. I also think that the pictures might confuse students a little because some of them are full of different objects and can take the focus away from the objects they are actually supposed to be looking at/ counting. I’m not sure if I would use this one in my classroom because I know of other books that are better for teaching counting, but I might keep it as part of the class library so that students can still read it if they choose to.
November 23, 2021
In a delightful story, readers interact with the world's once existing dinosaurs as they count the most miniature objects in their possessions. The illustrations depict the massive animals enclosed in small areas counting ballons, toy cars, balls, blocks, dirty socks, cars, paint jars, pictures, and even books. The story ends by strengthening the original question of how dinosaurs count to ten, and readers are encouraged to count again. Even though the story is short, dinosaur lovers might be interested in how they practice math skills and may find this story on their bedtime repeat shelf. This book does a great job emphasizing that math can be fun and interactive, but I did feel that something was missing. It felt too simple, and underestimating a child's mind does not do justice in their learning.
March 9, 2024
I like that this book is very relatable to the classroom. I would read this to toddlers and preschoolers. It would be fun to use our dinosaurs and recreate the book using the items in our classroom. I think preschoolers would enjoy being assigned one of the dinosaurs and being responsible to count the one item associated with the number. I would ask students "how do dinosaurs count to 10" which would relate to math. I would ask questions about how dinosaurs lived and if they would really count to 10 and that could lead to a discussion about where they live now and why they are no longer around, which relates to science. Those questions would also connect to social studies because they would be learning about past events.
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May 11, 2023This is a fantastic book for children. This book teaches counting in a fun and engaging way. The illustrations are bright and colorful, featuring a variety of different playful dinosaurs! This is a rhyming book that makes in fun and easy for young readers to follow along. Each page features a different dinosaur counting up to ten. Children will love learning about the different types of dinosaurs while practicing their early math skills! I love how this book is not just limited to counting. Each page includes additional information about that featured dinosaur such as its scientific name, and diet. This makes this book engaging and educational for students.
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June 1, 2024This book was a fun and cute way to introduce counting numerals from one to ten. I think this would work best for students from pre-k to kindergarten. I like how this book can easily be expanded to different activities based on the grade level. If I am working with pre-k I would use this book to introduce the concept of counting from one to ten. We can expand this to an activity by giving them colored manipulatives and sorting them out of the numbers. For kindergarten, you can expand it by learning the names of each dinosaur in the book and giving them a refresher on what counting from one to ten looks like at the beginning of the year.
March 5, 2018
Copyright-2004
Number of Pages-12
Book Format- board book
Reading Level- Age level: Pre-K-K; GR: H
Genre- fiction, counting book, picture book, concept
Lit Requirement- Counting book 2
Summary- This book goes through the numbers 1-10 using a dinosaur's knowledge of different household objects he recognizes (ex. train cars, dirty socks, etc). Using a rhyme scheme, he goes all the way through 1-10 and it finishes by saying he does it all again.
Response- I thought this book was cute. I believe toddlers will love this because of the rhyme scheme, the use of objects they know, and dinosaurs!
Number of Pages-12
Book Format- board book
Reading Level- Age level: Pre-K-K; GR: H
Genre- fiction, counting book, picture book, concept
Lit Requirement- Counting book 2
Summary- This book goes through the numbers 1-10 using a dinosaur's knowledge of different household objects he recognizes (ex. train cars, dirty socks, etc). Using a rhyme scheme, he goes all the way through 1-10 and it finishes by saying he does it all again.
Response- I thought this book was cute. I believe toddlers will love this because of the rhyme scheme, the use of objects they know, and dinosaurs!
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May 12, 2021
This book is so fun and cute! In it we meet a dinosaurs who is learning to count to ten. The rhymes especially make this a fun read. The vocabulary is simple and age appropriate. Mark Teague illustrated this book and the dinosaurs are incredibly detailed. He depicts the dinosaurs learning to count in similar situations as a child would. This book is perfect for preschool and Kindergarten math lessons. The only complaint I have is that there is no numerals on the pages, just the numbers spelled out.
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