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Young sports fans will find plenty to cheer about in the latest Dino series picture book. . . Wheeler makes a brilliant lateral move to board sports. No, not board games; the agile dinosaurs are now competing on surfboards, skateboards, and snowboards, as hordes of loyal fans fill the stands. Well suited to the series’ audience, the book’s rhymed couplets and digital illustrations capture the energy and excitement of sports competitions. Wheeler uses plenty of X Games jargon in the text and even includes one classical reference: “He waves to fans and lifts his board. / He came. He saw. He rocked. He scored!” Meanwhile, Gott echoes the nonstop rhythm of the words in a series of nicely varied, action-packed scenes showing dinosaurs in motion. What’s next for these sports-obsessed dinos? No spoilers here, but the big reveal comes on the last page.
—Carolyn Phelan, BOOKLIST Sept. 2014
 
Wheeler and Gott appear to be in zero danger of running out of athletic competitions for dinosaurs to go head to head in (not to mention crest to spike). In this seventh book, Gott’s chunky, angular dinos catch waves on short and long boards, ride the half-pipe on skateboard, and show off snowboard tricks on the slopes. Wheeler channels her best X-Games patter as carnivores and herbivores do battle: “Dino skate fans look alert./ Those Ptero Twins are goin’ vert!/ Twin One rolls right up the ramp./ Grabs the coping like a clamp.” Just right for budding skate and surf bros. Ages 5–9. 
—Publishers Weekly

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Young sports fans will find plenty to cheer about in the latest Dino series picture book. . . Wheeler makes a brilliant lateral move to board sports. No, not board games; the agile dinosaurs are now competing on surfboards, skateboards, and snowboards, as hordes of loyal fans fill the stands. Well suited to the series’ audience, the book’s rhymed couplets and digital illustrations capture the energy and excitement of sports competitions. Wheeler uses plenty of X Games jargon in the text and even includes one classical reference: “He waves to fans and lifts his board. / He came. He saw. He rocked. He scored!” Meanwhile, Gott echoes the nonstop rhythm of the words in a series of nicely varied, action-packed scenes showing dinosaurs in motion. What’s next for these sports-obsessed dinos? No spoilers here, but the big reveal comes on the last page.
—Carolyn Phelan, BOOKLIST Sept. 2014
 
Wheeler and Gott appear to be in zero danger of running out of athletic competitions for dinosaurs to go head to head in (not to mention crest to spike). In this seventh book, Gott’s chunky, angular dinos catch waves on short and long boards, ride the half-pipe on skateboard, and show off snowboard tricks on the slopes. Wheeler channels her best X-Games patter as carnivores and herbivores do battle: “Dino skate fans look alert./ Those Ptero Twins are goin’ vert!/ Twin One rolls right up the ramp./ Grabs the coping like a clamp.” Just right for budding skate and surf bros. Ages 5–9. 
—Publishers Weekly

Review:

Dino-Boarding

author Lisa Wheeler

illustrator Barry Gott

ISBN-10: 0761363947

ISBN-13: 978-0761363941

Team Green Machine battles the Shredding Crew for dino-boarding domination! Allo and Diplo thrill the surfing crowd, while Compy comes up short on a short board. In the next round, Iguano, Raptor, and the Ptero Twins fly high on skateboards. And who will win the snowboarding half-pipe? Tricera and T-Rex each think they'll take home the prize. Let's hope the dinos remembered their helmets—these tricks might get gnarly!

Excerpt:


Skateboards! Snowboards! Surfboards too!

From part...to hills...to ocean blue.


Mt. Mastodon has the right conditions

to host the yearly competitions.


Young sports fans will find plenty to cheer about in the latest Dino series picture book. . . Wheeler makes a brilliant lateral move to board sports. No, not board games; the agile dinosaurs are now competing on surfboards, skateboards, and snowboards, as hordes of loyal fans fill the stands. Well suited to the series’ audience, the book’s rhymed couplets and digital illustrations capture the energy and excitement of sports competitions. Wheeler uses plenty of X Games jargon in the text and even includes one classical reference: “He waves to fans and lifts his board. / He came. He saw. He rocked. He scored!” Meanwhile, Gott echoes the nonstop rhythm of the words in a series of nicely varied, action-packed scenes showing dinosaurs in motion. What’s next for these sports-obsessed dinos? No spoilers here, but the big reveal comes on the last page.
—Carolyn Phelan, BOOKLIST Sept. 2014
 
Wheeler and Gott appear to be in zero danger of running out of athletic competitions for dinosaurs to go head to head in (not to mention crest to spike). In this seventh book, Gott’s chunky, angular dinos catch waves on short and long boards, ride the half-pipe on skateboard, and show off snowboard tricks on the slopes. Wheeler channels her best X-Games patter as carnivores and herbivores do battle: “Dino skate fans look alert./ Those Ptero Twins are goin’ vert!/ Twin One rolls right up the ramp./ Grabs the coping like a clamp.” Just right for budding skate and surf bros. Ages 5–9. 
—Publishers Weekly

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