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32 pp.
| Kids Can |
September, 2004 |
TradeISBN 1-55337-393-6$15.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Bill Slavin
&
Esperança Melo.
A full moon rouses the dinosaur fossils buried in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, and they rise up, "assemble themselves-- / fronts, sides and backs," and party loudly until dawn. Arresting acrylic paintings of the skeletons drumming and dancing on terra cotta-colored hills in the inky-blue night add weight to the lively but slight rhyming text.