Flapdoodle Dinosaurs (Pop Up)

Six goofy dinosaurs lurk behind the flaps in pop-up whiz David Carter's colorful Flapdoodle Dinosaurs. Readers peek inside a loaf of bread, an old radio, a china teapot, and more to discover such winsome characters as Diplodocus Blue ("she often whispers 'I love you'") and Triceratops Pink ("she hunts all day long for Green Pickle Pie"). Each dino leaps off the page in an explosion of color and feats of paper engineering genius. Designed for the younger reader, this appealing book names real dinosaurs, but fictionalizes them with nonsense rhymes that describe their personalities and favorite activities. Take Spinosaurus Purple, for example.

(His friends just call him Murple.)
His favorite drink is a Melon Slurple,
it makes his stomach go
gurple
gurple
GURPLE.

Simple text ("Who's inside the watermelon?") on the left side of each two-page spread, and big, clean images on the right belie the riot of nuttiness and motion behind the pictures. Kids will love making Stegosaurus Yellow wag his tail and Velociraptor Green do some quick "dancin'." (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter