Dinovember was started by Susan and Refe Tuma. They started this celebration 'because in the age of iPads and Netflix, we don’t want our kids to lose their sense of wonder and imagination. In a time when the answers to all the world’s questions are a web-search away, we want our kids to experience a little mystery. All it takes is some time and energy, creativity, and a few plastic dinosaurs.' These plastic dinosaurs get up to mischief while their children are asleep. Each day of November they wake to discover what the dinosaurs have done during the night.
This activity is now being celebrated in other people's homes, public libraries, school libraries and classrooms. At this time of year my school is very busy with end of year activities so it is not possible for me to do it full-scale with classes in the library or library lessons, but dinosaurs are super popular with my young audience, so we have decided to promote a dinosaur book every day during November. It would be good to have the picture books that these parents have subsequently produced to start it off, but unfortunately we do not have them.
As well each week we might produce anew dinosaur havoc such as this one.
We have decided on a twist to this idea. On a table we will have the plastic dinosaurs out to play with and they will be 'fighting' over a book. The students will be able to 'rescue' the book if they want to borrow it. The library is only open Monday to Thursday so we will only need eighteen books.
Today preschool classes come to the library and as Penny Dale's dinosaur books are very popular with them they will be on display for them to borrow. Each day after that we will change the book on display. If that author has more dinosaur books and the original is borrowed, it will be good because there will be replacements.
Day 11 Gabby Dawnay and Alex Barrow
Day 15 Zoe Ingram
Day 17 Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
Day 19 John Condon and Steve Brown
Day 20 Sean Taylor and Zehra Hicks
Day 21 Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
Day 22 Chris Gall
Day 24 Ryan T. Higgins
Of course there are more dinosaur books than this, but all of these are currently available. And of course you could use nonfiction dinosaur books. Some titles that are out of print but are always popular are:
I adore this idea. I should have looked more closely when I was in the library.
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