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Camp Rex (2014)

by Molly Idle(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0670785733 (ISBN13: 9780670785735)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Viking Juvenile

review 1: I love how the text and the pictures show two different versions of camping. The words read almost as a how-to manual for camping, and expound of the vast delights of communing with nature. The pictures, however, show that camping, especially if your companions are dinosaurs, might not live up to all the hype. As a non-camper, I got a lot of chuckles out of this one! Make sure to start inside the front cover and compare it to the illustration on the back cover. Molly Idle has used all of the book to tell her story.
review 2: This embodies many qualities of a good picture book, the most important being how the illustrations interpret the story (in my opinion). This text could have been illustrated in a number of ways (see marshmallow comment below), with a numbe... morer of different characters in a number of different styles. This one apparently builds off the previously published "Tea Rex" (which I've not yet read), so I can't comment on that. I like the 'guide to camping' path of the story and how it ends "...in their own backyard."Illustrations have an outdoorsy green hue, and fill the page with the girl & boy's dinosaur friends. I can't tell if the girl is a girl because in some pictures she looks more like an old lady - almost an elderly Juliet Low, and in one she resembles an evil Disney character. My favorite illustration is when the Rex uses the tree trunk with it's many branches each holding a marshmallow over the campfire!This would be a great one to read aloud without showing the pictures, and having students interpret it to come up with their own illustrations. less

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