This is a concept book from Caldecott Honor illustrator Suse MacDonald. As readers turn the brightly colored, die cut pages, shapes on each page come together to reveal a creature from long ago. Page by page, MacDonald’s bright, cut-paper, collage-style artwork transforms circles into eyes and triangles into scales until a familiar creature is revealed, with the aid of a large fold-out page, on the final spread.

This book uses cut-out pages to introduce a new shape each page. Each shape adds a detail to an image to eventually create a dinosaur.
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This book gives students clues about shapes, and features that help them recognize shapes (ex. teeth are like triangles). It's a book that will keep them guessing, but it's short and could only be used for kindergarten or younger. ( )

This is an excellent example of a creative and simple INFORMATIONAL book because it describes the biggest dinosaur ever using common shapes that children need to learn; not only it is informational about that dinosaur, but also, and probably more importantly so, it gives information about shapes.

Age Appropriateness: primary
Media: computer?