How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? (2005)

Dinosaurs are taught the correct way to eat and behave at the table.

This book depicts children as dinosaurs. The dinosaurs in the beginning throw a fuss in every which way because they do not want to eat their food. If you look close the illustrator writes the name of the dinosaurs. The parents are human and the child is a dinosaur. In the end the dinosaurs learn how to behave by eating their vegetables, not yelling, and trying new foods at least once. This book would lean more towards parent use. Parents would see if their child isn't eating properly or has bad table manners and read this book. ( )

After the dinosaurs show jane their bad behavior at the dinner table, she must show them how to behave properly and use their manners. ( )

The prospect of having a protoceratops come over for dinner or of joining a quetzalcoatlus for a fancy restaurant meal is sure to amuse young readers. Playful dinosaurs populate this clever tale that’s guaranteed to keep young readers laughing at the dinosaurs’ mischievous table manners.

Colorfully illustrated with the dinosaurs all but leaping from the page, this is a book guaranteed to please young dinosaur-lovers.

Recommended. ( )

We like How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? very much and this one is good too. The large, expressive dinosaurs demonstrate over-the-top bad manners ("Do they spit out their broccoli partially chewed?") and then model perfectly correct ones, but somehow it has enough of a sense of humor to avoid seeming preachy. We read this one a lot at the kitchen table. ( )