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Si jamais un dinosaure trainait dans ton salon et que tu ne savais pas quoi faire... tu pourrais t'en servir comme ouvre-boîte! Il ferait un excellent casse-noisette aussi! Un dinosaure pourrait servir de grand parapluie, de cerf-volant ou même d'oreiller. Il pourrait aussi servir de système antivol au cas où des intrus tenteraient d'entrer chez vous.
Les rôles absurdes que l'on prête aux dinosaures de cet album feront rire les lecteurs aux éclats en plus de stimuler leur imagination et leur montrer comment faire pour que leur dinosaure ne les quittent jamais.
If you happen to have a dinosaur, lying around your living room, and you don't know what to do with it ...why don't you use it as a can opener? It will make a terrific nutcracker too! There are oodles of uses for a dinosaur -- from a fine umbrella to an excellent kite and a dandy pillow, not to mention a reliable burglar alarm and the perfect excuse to forget your homework. This delightfully absurd exploration of the domestic uses of dinosaurs -- and the things dinos just aren't good for at all -- is guaranteed to tickle funny bones and spark imaginations. If you read carefully, you'll learn how to make your dinosaur last a very long time.
Original title: If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur
About the Author: Linda Bailey est l'auteure de plus d'une vingtaine de livres pour enfants dont Stanley's Party et, plus r?cemment, Toads on Toast, illustr? par Colin Jack. Elle a re?u de nombreuses r?compenses aux ?tats-Unis comme au Canada. Linda est n?e au Winnipeg, mais elle a voyag? partout dans le monde, comme ses livres. Elle vit aujourd'hui ? Vancouver, en Colombie-Britannique.
Colin Jack est l'illustrateur tr's talentueux de la s?rie Galaxy Zack et 1 Zany Zoo, ainsi que de nombreux albums jeunesse. Il ouvre ?galement en tant que sc?nariste en images et cr?ateur de personnages pour DreamWorks et a notamment travaill? sur H?tel Transylvania, Glurp Attack et Ed, Edd et Eddy. Colin est n? ? Vancouver, mais r?side ? Redwood City, en Californie.
Linda Bailey has written more than twenty books for children in a number of different genres, including the best-selling Stanley-the-dog series, The Farm Team, the Stevie Diamond Mysteries, the Good Times Travel Agency series, and most recently, Toads on Toast, also illustrated by Colin Jack. Linda has garnered a long list of honors in Canada such as the Ontario Blue Spruce Award, the Atlantic Provinces Hackmatack Award and the Arthur Ellis Award.
Colin Jack is the incredibly talented illustrator of several books for children including the Galaxy Zack series, Toads on Toast and 1 Zany Zoo. He also works as a story artist and character designer at Dreamworks, and has been involved in such productions as Hotel Transylvania, Grossology and Ed, Edd n Eddy.
