Cover Image: What's Wrong? In Dinosaur Times

What's Wrong? In Dinosaur Times

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I’ve finally bought this amazing book. It is absolutely fabulous and my grandson loved dit ! As a teacher, I found it extremely engaging as it made the kid active and activity is so important to learn anything! A great find and a lovely book to buy for our little ones.
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Fantastic book for my 5 year old! He really loves dinosaurs and the pictures were great! He loves to search and find books, so this was right up his alley.

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I thought that this book was really good!

I loved that the images were nice and bright which made them attractive to my daughter.

I liked you could learn a little about dinosaurs as well as finding out and spotting the mistakes in the book.

It is 4 stars from me for this one - very enjoyable!!

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Again, this is okay, but after the children discover what is wrong the first time around, I seriously doubt they will be interested in picking it up again. Just okay.

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I want to thank #netgalley for giving me a copy to review. This was a cute book where you have to find the things wrong in the picture. The topic of the book is dinosaurs which I preferred to the transportation book (my son preferred the transportation one). In looking for books for my classroom, this would not be one that I would choose, but for car rides for my children I would buy it in a heartbeat. This will keep kids busy and they will come back to it over and over.

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To read this book the child must be super unto dinosaurs and the ages of the dinosaurs. This book is not for your typical 5 year old. We spotted most of the five things that were wrong or didn’t belong there. If we didn’t I just made some thing up. Reading in kindle form it was too hard to go to the end to look at the list of what was wrong or didn’t belong. I would pass on this book. I felt the same on another of this author’s books.

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I like search and finds so I really like this book. The pictures are good and funny.

Nathan, age 8

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This is a fun activity book that will have kids engaged as they try to find the mistakes that are embedded in nine Mesozoic scenes. Two friendly guides give clues and there are 5 anomalies to discover per scene.

The illustrations are bright, busy and cartoonish in nature. They are very kid-friendly and kids will giggle as they see dinosaurs wearing headphones, reading books and showing off their sharp, pearly whites, just to cite a few. Kids love dinosaur themes and hunting for hidden objects so I know this book will be a fun read and engagement for them. The book will entertain as well as develop their cognitive skills and their spatial awareness also. The introduction paragraph regarding each new section is a nice segue into a new adventure. Recommended but not enthusiastically.

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An enjoyable time is to be had by young and old as one tries to spot the five out of place anomalies that are contained in the cartoonish graphics depicting scenes from the Mesozoic, or "Middle Life" Era when mighty dinosaurs ruled the world. Aimed at developing a young child's cognitive skills together with providing a first building block to an understanding of the subject the book contains key information regarding each depicted scene together with clues that will enable the child to identify the wrong thing to find. The graphics immediately attract and together with the snappy text there is an overall impression of fun.

This is an activity book that will I'm sure engage and entertain most children.

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Altogether, kids – "anomaly". Here are some spreads of cartoonish art showing dioramas of dinosaurs, and every one has five things wrong with it. Unfortunately, too often that's something wearing clothes, but this entry-level primer to the prehistoric isn't too bad. You have to think laterally about what was alive then, although some of the anomalies are rather too obvious by comparison. I can see this getting some educational use, however I didn't take to the over-lurid and cartoonish art style.

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This is lovely, but I would be interested to see the format it's published in.

The actual spot the odd one out is fun, and they're really silly and amusing, but once they have been found there is no longer the replay ability of say, where's Wally because of the intricacy of the drawings mean that you can't always find him again, and they have secondary challenges as well as Wally.

Here it's more of an activity book feel as once done, theres not as much to hook a dresser to come back to it. The text isnt enough to draw a reader back in. The paragraph about each section is nicely written - great for the target audience.

The illustrations are so cute, and characterful.

A great idea, but perhaps as part of a super cool activity book rather than a standalone.

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This was cute and I could see using this with toddlers to find what's wrong in the picture... I don't see any educational value with this one though. Not one I would use in my classroom.

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This is a wonderfully busy search activity book. Taking on a child’s favourite, the dinosaur, this book will entertain and develop spatial awareness.

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