Serving as a sort of overview for the series’ 12 previous exercises in behavior modeling, this latest outing opens with a set of badly behaving dinos, identified in an endpaper key and also inconspicuously in situ. 6-10)Ī guide to better behavior-at home, on the playground, in class, and in the library. Pitch perfect for the beginning chapter-book crowd. Even so, they still won’t have had enough of Lulu. The glib narrator provides not one but three endings for readers to choose from. Dinosaurs, it turns out, are fond of good manners. In short chapters interspersed with funny narrative asides and whimsical black-and-white illustrations, readers follow Lulu as she heads into the woods, faces off with some ferocious animals and finally finds the brontosaurus, who decides he’d rather have Lulu as his pet than be hers! Lulu won’t survive this adventure without some serious changes in her behavior. Lulu’s antics do no good this time, so she heads into the woods to find a dinosaur herself. Her long-suffering parents finally put their collective feet down and refuse. And what she wants now is a brontosaurus for her birthday. Viorst, better known within the children's-book world for picture books than novels, flexes her muscles and introduces readers to delightfully obnoxious, fit-throwing Lulu, a spoiled only child prone to indulging in over-the-top temper tantrums to get what she wants.
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