Tyrannosaurus Wrecks!

Wow! I guess I was a TW when I was in the 3rd grade! But I didn't know it at the time. Dino books take me back to when I was a little boy; I guess I read them to try to take a 'vacation' back to that time when I thought I wanted to be a paleontologist.......more

Naming a book with a pun -- swapping out Rex for Wrecks -- inflicting a pun that picture book readers are unlikely to understand -- isn't my favorite gimmick for making any book adorable. But I'll admit, kids who are going through love-love-loving dinosaurs will hardly notice little things like the t......more

I love the rhythm and rhyme in this short. Tyrannosaurus has a problem -- his careless ways and playful streak means that he makes wreck after wreck. But when his friends call him out for his wrecking ways, he isn't able to solve his problem without some help and support from his dino buddies. The m......more

A little Tyrannosaurus is disruptive in his preschool classroom in this rhyming picture-book from author Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and illustrator Zachariah OHora. Each of the other little dinosaurs engages nicely in his or her play, but the Tyrannosaurus wrecks - continually! Eventually ejected from......more

This delightfully humorous picture book features young anthropomorphized dinosaurs attending school. While the other dinosaurs work hard in class, everything the Tyrannosaurus touches ends up becoming a big mess. At first it might seem that he is simply a destructive sort, but as readers move throug......more