What the Dinosaurs Did the Night Before Christmas

Praise for What the Dinosaurs Did the Night Before Christmas: Praise for What the Dinosaurs Did at School: Praise for What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night: A Very Messy Adventure: A Bank Street College Distinguished Children’s Book A 2017-2018 Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee * “The Tumas have much to answer for, as this album will join the many like scenes they have posted online as a record of their annual family “Dinovember” celebrations which are already, no surprise at all, spawning fans and similar outbreaks of disorder in other locales. The authors may well have created a monster with this deliciously chaotic notion.“–Kirkus, starred review”…successfully captures the wonder, exasperation, and secret admiration provoked by these terrible lizards’ terrible behavior.“–Publishers Weekly“A fun-to-read, rhyming book that kids will enjoy…a nice addition to Christmas picture book collections.”–School Library Journal“Amusing and fun, students who love dinosaurs will devour this book.”–School Library Journal“Filled with whimsy and imagination, this book will delight children of all ages… Detailed photographs will keep kids turning the pages and parents enjoying the rockling dino antics.”–School Library Journal“The compositions are excellent, the props adorable… and the hyperbolic narration sustains a fever pitch.”–Publishers Weekly“The husband-and-wife team of “Dinovember” fame pose their plastic dinosaurs with props and use perspective masterfully to stage their scenes…. Better add plastic dinosaurs to the shopping list-kids will want in on the fun.“–Kirkus Reviews“The Tumas’ neon photographs of toy dinos draped in spaghetti, bouncing on soccer balls and devouring library books are mini-masterpieces of creativity.”–USA Today

Refe and Susan Tuma live in Kansas City with their four children and a herd of plastic dinosaurs. Every November, writer and social media master Refe and his wife, Susan, work into the night to bring their four children scenes from the secret lives of their toys–specifically the nighttime antics of said plastic dinosaurs. The Tumas began cataloguing their dinosaurs’ antics in 2012, igniting the imaginations of hundreds of thousands of children–young and old–across the world. Refe and Susan are the authors of the What the Dinosaurs Did picture book series, including What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night, What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night: A Very Messy Adventure, and What the Dinosaurs Did At School.

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