Dance Meets Dinosaur . . . A Really BIG Performance! 

Welcome to Lenore Hart and her friend Lisa Carrier's  (somewhat skewed) take on dinosaurs and dance!

T. Rex, who's been the main exhibit at the Museum of Natural History for ninety-nine years, has finally had enough. The crowds, the acclaim, the oohs and ahhs -- all very nice, but it's boring to be bolted to a platform all the time! She yearns for the good old prehistoric days of leaping through green meadows, of tiptoeing daintily through clear streams --  in pursuit of meals, of course.

Then one day she overhears two museum visitors discussing something called The Ballet, particularly a performance of Swan Lake. Suddenly it hits her --  all that leaping and twirling and tiptoing around. She was born to DANCE! 

 Now, if she can just get down the street to the Opera House . . . 

Dutton Books for Children presents T. REX AT SWAN LAKE, written by Lisa Carrier and Lenore Hart, delightfully illustrated by Chris Demarest. It's the hilarious journey of a dinosaur's quest; from museum exhibit to prima ballerina. Readers will root for T. Rex as she overcomes city traffic and too-small tutus, fainting dance partners, runaway violinists, and one very startled audience. This T-rrific story introduces a determined  and unexpected --  but always polite!  -- heroine young readers will never forget.
       
Ages 4-8.  School & Library Binding . . . 32 pp.  Dutton Books, 1st ed.  ISBN 0525471774  15.99 US, 24.00 CANADA   
For reviewer copies, call Dutton Books for Children at (212) 366-2323 and ask for the Publicity Department. Or fax your request to (212) 366-2385.

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