Monday, August 5, 2019

PICTURE BOOK - We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

Illustrated by the author
2018, Disney/Hyperion
HC $17.99
40 pgs.
Goodreads rating:  4.51 - 3829 ratings
My rating:  5
Endpapers:  drawings of dinosaurs drawn by Penelope's classmates

1st line/s:  "Penelope Rex was nervous.  It's not every day a little T. rex Starts school."

My comments:  This has been my favorite book so far this year (it was written last year, 2018)  It's funny, creative, and has a fantastic theme:  treating each other fairly, lovingly, appropriately.  I can't wait to read this aloud to kids.  And I love the illustrations, the diversity in the classroom, and Penelope's innocent reactions to everything that happens to her.

Goodreads:  Penelope the dinosaur starts school, but it’s hard to make friends when her classmates are so delicious!
          It’s the first day of school for Penelope Rex, and she can’t wait to meet her classmates. But it’s hard to make human friends when they’re so darn delicious! That is, until Penelope gets a taste of her own medicine and finds she may not be at the top of the food chain after all. . . . Readers will gobble up this hilarious new story from award-winning author-illustrator Ryan T. Higgins.

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