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"A little girl is shopping in a grocery store when-surprise!-she meets a dinosaur. Don't worry. The dinosaur is very friendly. She's polite, too. In this funny story, told in lilting read-aloud rhyme, the girl has numerous opportunities to be helpful to the clumsy shopping dino and demonstrate when to say """"thank you,"""" """"excuse me,"""" """"I'm sorry,"""" """"You're welcome,"""" and other niceties of life. Tim Bowers's whimsical illustrations bring an extra dimension of fun to Judy Sierra's hilarious picture book fantasy. Altogether, Suppose You Meet a Dinosaur is an entertaining and painless way to show preschoolers why basic manners are a good thing to have."

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"Poetry and folklore have enchanted me since childhood. My parents began reading poems to me when I was two years old, and they encouraged me to learn my favorite verses by heart. By the time I was in second grade, I was writing my school reports in rhyme. I also loved putting on plays with my friends. I wrote scripts and sewed costumes. Robin Hood and the Greek myths were my favorite dramatic inspirations. After college, I wrote plays and adapted stories for children's theater. With my husband, Bob Kaminski, I performed as a puppeteer and storyteller at schools, libraries and theaters. We were best known for our shadow puppet performances, and our shadow production of the Chinese story of Monkey King was featured at the Smithsonian Institution's Discovery Theater. In 1986, I heard a speech by children's author and illustrator Uri Shulevitz. He remarked that a picture book is a small theater piece that an adult to presents to a child. I thought to myself, """"I know a lot about small theaters and entertaining children. I should write a picture book."""" Two years later, The Elephant's Wrestling Match was accepted for publication. Like many of my subsequent children's books, it was my"

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