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Ho! Ho! Ho! With more than 9 million books in print, America's favorite dinosaurs can't wait to celebrate Christmas!

From decorating the tree to wrapping presents, little dinosaurs love to celebrate Christmas-and everything about it. With ornaments on the branches and carolers singing at the door, the spirit of Christmas is finally here and filling the hearts of families everywhere. But when the stockings are hung on the chimney, and the cookies are left out for Santa, how can little dinosaurs go to sleep? It's so exciting! How can they possibly calm down and behave?

Children will laugh out loud as dinosaurs secretly lick candy canes, take sneaky peeks at gifts, and disrupt the traditional family feast.

With holiday surprises around every corner, the award-winning team of Jane Yolen and Mark Teague create an engaging, fun gift sure to be read again and again, year after year. How do dinosaurs say Merry Christmas? The same way they say Happy Chanukah: With an abundance of love, joy, memory, and gratitude.

When you're a champion ice-skater, you have to wait for the conditions to be just right.

You have to wait through spring.

You have to wait through summer.

You have to wait through autumn until . . .

Finally, as the snow begins to fall, you can show the world just how good you really are!

From the author/illustrator of The Secret Circus and Bandits comes one very self-assured young rabbit's first-hand account of the trials and tribulations of being a skating star, with illustrations that will melt your heart on even the coldest winter day.

The above images and descriptions have been taken from Amazon.com

Literacy Extenders:

• Bunnies on Ice is as much about weather change as it is about a figure skating bunny. Ask your child about how the weather is changing in the pictures,...what are they seeing that are the visual cues as to what is going on. Ask them about the weather outside.
• Talk about behavior and ask them what the dinosaur in the story is doing right and what he is doing wrong...make up other scenarios for the dinosaur and ask them if he is making a good choice or a bad choice.
• Ask them to make a list of good choices that they have already made. or make a behavior chart that they can see and put stickers on.

CRAFT:

Make a Chart: The chart below is very generic and can be printed off and tailored to to your child's needs. Click on the picture below to go straight to the link.