Read for Lesson 3 / What a FUN dinosaur book! Fantastic illustrations.

Bibliographic Information: Nate Evans and Stephanie Gwyn Brown, “BOOM! BANG! ROAR! A Busy Crew of Dinosaurs”, Illustrated by Christopher Santoro, Published by HarperCollins, ©2012, 32 pages
Genre: ABC Book
Summary: This book uses the alphabet to help children learn. The book contains dinosaurs working on a construction crew. The book uses a new letter on every page and contains several words on that page that start with the same letter.
Tags: Creative, Fun, ABC, Boys, Hard work
My Response: This book is okay but I found it hard to read. This is definitely a second or third grade book. I think first graders might be able to read it but some of the words are fairly big. The book does have very good illustrations though. It is not a very good ABC book in my opinion.

his is a complete, out of the park hit with my 4 year old, combining dinosaurs and construction equipment, which he loves, with an alphabet plot (which I'm interested in). A group of construction-worker dinosaurs is called in to build a mysterious thing, which turns out-- on the last 2 page spread-- to be a sort of adventure park. It reads well, and has some catchy lines; while not every word in the page for a letter begins with it-- or where would the plot be?-- the text emphasizes the letter of the page both at the beginning of words and within words. X and Q, with their E words, might be confusing to a child; but the rest is great alphabet fun. The silly dinosaurs are on every page doing different things (my son especially likes the various dinos in A-shirts jigglingly running jackhammers, and the creation of the volcano, followed by vamoosing!) Compare with B is for Bulldozer or Dinosaurs Dig! ( )

Dinosaurs operating big machines at a construction site. Something many young boys will enjoy. ( )