By Jane Yolen
The bedtime book that lets your dinosaur-obsessed toddler watch a T. rex get tucked in and kissed good night.
It's bedtime, except the child in this book happens to be an enormous dinosaur. So the book asks, one silly page at a time, does a dinosaur stall and stomp and refuse to go to sleep? And then it answers: no, a good little dinosaur hugs its mom and dad, turns off the light, and settles right down. Every dinosaur is drawn the size of the whole bedroom, which your child will find hilarious.
It's the gentlest possible way in for a dinosaur-obsessed toddler, because it drops the thing they love straight into the bedtime routine you already do every night. The rhymes are bouncy enough to survive being read a hundred times. And tucked into every picture is that dinosaur's actual name, so a really keen child starts picking up Diplodocus and Tyrannosaurus without anyone sitting them down to teach them.