Official Review: How Do You Play With a Dinosaur

[Verna Coy]

[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "How Do You Play With a Dinosaur" by Steve Edwards.]

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2 out of 4 stars

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How Do You Play With a Dinosaur by Steve Edwards is a book that seems geared toward young children. What would happen if a dinosaur wanted to play with a kid? Could they be friends? What games would they play? What activities could they do to have fun? To find the answers out to these questions, you must read this short, children's story!

I enjoyed the concept of the chaos that could happen if a dinosaur wanted to play with you. The mess of paint everywhere if a dinosaur tried to paint, made me smile. This aspect of humor is what I liked most about the book as a whole.

I liked the cover of this book, at first. The front cover features a kid and a dinosaur in bright colors; it's exactly what kids want to see. After reading the book, however, I feel that the kid on the front cover, and in all of the illustrations, should be a very young child rather than the teenager that it seems to be. The teenager doesn't seem to suit the story or concept of the book.

I also noted that in every illustrated page of this book, the same image/illustration of the teenager and dinosaur is used. Only the size, position of the image, or left-right position, is changed each time. This repetition made the book feel as though the author didn't think that the story was worth excellent illustrations. The lack of original illustration in this sense is what I disliked the most about this work.

I did find a few errors in this book that ranged from missing spaces, missing commas, and grammar, and sentence structure issues. This book also had a Table of Contents that listed each page's concept sentence and the number it is found on. In such a short, 21-page book, a Table of Contents seems unnecessary in formatting. For these reasons, I am rating this book with 2 out of 4 stars. If you like colorful books with short sentences and don't mind repetition in the illustrations, this may be the book for you. Otherwise, I don't recommend it.

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[Elvis Best]

The concept of this book sounds very interesting, but it seems it lacked proper delivery. Thanks for your honest review. Good job!

[Stephanie Elizabeth]

Despite sounding like a cute story, I think I will pass on reading this one to my kids as the illustrations sound disappointing. Thanks for the honest review.

[baha Ibrahim]

Good story but there is a lot of grammar errors, I will pass on reading this.

Thanks for your review

[Priyanka2304]

How to play with your dinosaur sounds like a very fun book for kids. Cover of the book is also captivating. Thanks for the review.

[Ivana Tomaš]

I really like the concept of this book. It is a pity that the illustrations are not very well made, considering that they are often crucial in books like this. But thanks for the great review!