About the Author:
Lisa Carrier lives in Snow Hill, Mary- land. This is her first book.
Lenore Hart is the author of an adult novel, Waterwoman.
Chris Demarest is the award-winning illustrator and author-illustrator of more than one hundred titles, including The New York Times Top Ten Picture Book Firefighters A to Z.
From Booklist:
PreS.-Gr. 1. It's a cruel fate for a female Tyrannosaurus rex, once wild and free, to be stuck inside a natural history museum. One day, the skeletal T. Rex overhears two women talking about the nearby ballet Swan Lake, and she becomes intrigued by the idea of becoming a ballerina. Wrenching her bolted-down toes from the platform, she lumbers toward the exit, past her devoted guard, out the door, and straight to the opera house. Chaos ensues as she dons an extra-large purple tutu and swings dramatically onto the stage for her terrifying, pterodactyl-like ballet debut. But after 32 perfect pirouettes and a tremendous leap, T. Rex earns a standing ovation. Any child who has a dream but feels powerless to achieve it will cheer for T. Rex in this quirky, if somewhat rambling, flight of fancy. Demarest's fluid, sketchy line drawings splashed with watercolor comically capture the bizarre mayhem of an escaped, animated dino skeleton submerged in Swan Lake. Karin Snelson
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