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How to Catch a Daddysaurus

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We all need a Daddysaurus in our lives!   A man who cares about his family, playing with his children, loving his spouse, and providing for his family.   Can such a Daddysaurus be found?   In this story we have the fun of learning all about what a Daddysaurus does and watch his family work hard to catch him! The question is…. is success on the horizon?

How to catch a daddysaurus

The Basic Details of How to Catch a Daddysaurus

Title: How to Catch a Daddysaurus
Author: Alice Walstead
Illustrator: Andy Elkerton
Series: How to catch (part 2)
Publisher: sourcebooks wonderland
Pages: 40
Intended Audience: Kindergarten to Grade 5
Genre: picturebook, dinosaur, parenting, stories in verse, humour
Reviewed for: Raincoast Books
Available formats: Audio, hardcover, Kindle, paperback
Received: Hardcover

How to catch a daddysaurus

About the Author and Book

The Author

Alice Walstead has a goal of helping children smile when they read books. She writes children’s books. 

AND…. she has succeeded with her second How to Catch book. 

The Book

The How to Catch Kids are at it again! This time, they’re out to trap the Daddysaurus – a mystical creature capable of such amazing acts of kindness, bravery, brilliance and humor.  However will they catch him?   Perhaps they can use his favorite activities?   This dinosaur picture book is filled with silly rhymes and illustrations sure to delight young readers and educators alike with STEAM concepts and classic hilarity and chaos.

Digging Deeper

Rhyming verse helps us dance from page to page following children seeking to catch their local daddysaurus.  Will they be successful? 

Follow their progress as we observe the wonderful things that a daddysaurus does.  Watch the delight of the children as they problem-solve ways to meet their objective.  The only question is what trap is the best one to use on a DADDYSAURUS?????

Bright, clear images help tell the story.  

Bright and clear illustrations help to tell the story, clearly delineating the many attributes of a good Daddysaurus.  Should they use all the tricks they know?   Perhaps they might need help!

My Thoughts

This was actually a hard review to write!   How does one tell you about a book that made me smile without telling the whole story?   

You will find How to Catch a Daddysaurus to be a fun read with children loving up on their dad calling him a daddysaurus and extolling his virtues.  

Your dinosaur loving child will delight in reading this story with their own Daddysaurus.  Can you imagine the chuckles and laughter as they work together with the children in the story to make the capture. 

What we Learned today – April 12, 2011

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me – “Hey Son, what do you think we should have for breakfast this morning?”

the lad – “IRISH PANCAKES!” “you got to remember mommy, I like Irish pancakes”. (this said with a very earnest face)

So this is what we made (i cut the recipe in half)

Here is an easy way to make thin pancakes:

4 oz/ 125g/ 1 cup plain flour
pinch of salt
2 eggs
1/2 pt/ 250ml/ 1 cup milk
1 tbsp melted butter

Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend for about 30 seconds. The batter should then be allowed to stand for 30 minutes in a cool place. Heat a small pan over a medium heat. Grease with a little butter and wipe out with kitchen paper. Fry about 2 tbsp of batter at a time, swirling to cover the base of the pan. Keep them thin and there will be no need to turn. Serve rolled up with sugar. (we roll with cinnamon sugar)

Today we have a simple plan. Have breakfast, break open a dinosaur egg (purchased from dollar store) and talk about dinosaurs, paleontology, archaeology while doing so. Start our review of Mother’s Day for DNG, clean the kitchen, play outside, and see what else we can fit in. 🙂

But for now…BREAKFAST! 🙂

we enjoyed our breakfast and then dug up two dinosaurs.
The lad had dug up this one yesterday at gramma’s: stegosaurus
and today he dug up: Dilophasaurus

and I dug up a Parasaurolophus

Then we had fun letting our imaginary bunnies dig them up as well. One was the digger (archaeologist) and the other was the puzzler (Paleontologist) who put the dinosaurs together.

looked at doing this.

We never did do the mother’s day unit study, but we did do other things… like we read books and did some experiments on bridges. I’ll be posting pictures (go here for those)!