The repeated refrain on each spread allows for audience participation, though it doesn’t easily trip off the tongue: “They hear a swish. Rex does the honors…and once they are beyond their initial panic at his appearance, the onlookers cheer wildly. As the party would be incomplete without the moonwalk, the T. Each turn of the page adds another dino and a change in the dance genre: waltz, country line dancing, disco, limbo, square dancing, hip-hop, and swing. 2-6)ĭinos that love to move and groove get children counting from one to 10-and perhaps moving to the beat.īeginning with a solo bop by a female dino (she has eyelashes, doncha know), the dinosaur dance party begins.
It would be difficult not to fall in love with this rollicking flight of imagination created by a terrific combination of talent. Perhaps the use of color to create light will assist young readers in their search for images of Santa Claus faces, rabbits, and dinosaurs that are hidden in the scenes. A palette of blues and yellows painted against one another create depth and shadow while illuminating the night and casting a moonlit glow on the scenery. Primary colors delicately form the winter wonderland where the secret, active life of these frozen friends is grinningly revealed. The illustrative Buehner uses oil paints over acrylics to bring this idea to dazzling life. While children sleep, their snowy creations gather for winter fun that includes ice-skating on a pond, hilltop sledding, and an enthusiastic snowball fight.
Author Buehner imagines why snowmen may not look the same as they had the day before. The work of this husband-and-wife team best known for The Escape of Marvin the Ape (1992) is always special here it comes together in a delightful story about the nocturnal activities of snowmen that is refreshingly original and visually sparkling.
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