This is a story written for parents with ornery and sometimes naughty kiddos. ;O) It's the perfect ending to a not so perfect day because it reminds you just WHY you "put up" with the bad for ALL of the good. :O) By the time I read this to my kids at the end of "one of THOSE days" I usually cry. *haha*
A slight change (for the better) from the previous books, Jane Yolen uses a slightly different poetry style, and Mark Teague keeps finding obscure dinosaurs to draw, now one with feathers (it's possible all dinosaurs had feathers, you know), the parents are the same (he should really give them names) but look more care-worn than before, and he found a way to subtly add a cow, which I know is REALLY his favorite animal. (But a book named "How do Cows Say I Love You" wouldn't sell as well).
