Lee Davis (1) (1941–)

In my opinion, I liked the book “Dinosaur Dinners” by Lee Davis. The language in the story was descriptive and gave good detail about the dinosaurs. The language was also appropriate for the reading level these children were at. “I look frightening because I am so big. I need to eat huge amounts of leaves to keep myself going.” In that particular quote, the story was talking about a barosaurus and how it has a long neck and eats leaves from the top of trees. I also liked how the show more author included the illustrations on each page. The illustrations fit around the words, so that there was not much white space left on the page. The big idea of this story is to teach children about the different types of dinosaurs. show less

Genre: Informational
Review: "Dinosaur Dinners" is a book about dinosaurs- what they eat, how they protect themselves, and what kind they are. There are many different dinosaurs in this book. This is another book that is written like a story to be more engaging, but still has text features on the page to provide additional facts. I like that the dinosaur name pronunciations are included so that students don't just guess and move over the word. I like the glossary at the back of the book that show more quickly summarizes each type of dinosaur in the book. I think this would be a good informational book to have in a classroom library for students interested in dinosaurs.
Uses: This could be used as a mentor text for text features, or it could be used as independent reading. It could also be used as a resource for a research paper on dinosaurs.
Media: Digital renderings show less

Not much to say about it. Each spread has one scene (bedtime, for example), and on the facing page a list of four items in that scene, with pictures. Exactly what you expect from this genre of vocabulary building books.

Very good for very little babies, but now that both nieces have outgrown it I really ought to give mine away.

It does the job.

Each spread has the bear on one page with a shape, and on the opposite page four items that happen to be that shape.

Just what you expect.