A cheeky little dinosaur with a dirty snout sniffs and snuffs, shakes and taps, stamps and splashes and slides about getting dirtier and dirtier until finally he end up ... having a wash in this celebration of messiness and mud! PreS-Gr 2—In a book that has mud as one of the creative mediums, it's a given that the dinosaur is dirty. The prehistoric protagonist is drawn with magic pencil (which creates a thin rainbow-hued line) and minimal detail. Slowly, through onomatopoetic, brightly colored, rhyming text, he begins to color himself in with mud. "I'm a dirty dinosaur with a dirty tum./I splatter it with mud and I tap it like a drum./Tap, Tap,/Tap, Tap,/Tap it like a drum!" The watercolor scenery adds to the cute factor of the story, which spreads across extra thick white pages. Eventually, a swamp affords the dino the perfect place for a wash. This book will entertain kids in storytime as well as young independent readers. A solid general purchase for most libraries.—Nancy Jo Lambert, McSpedden Elementary Frisco, TX "...cries out for toddler participation, with parts for everyone.... It is nearly impossible to look at without reading aloud, chanting aloud and even tapping and stamping and sliding: extreme joyousness." -- Kirkus Reviews , STARRED "Brian's narrative lends itself to reading aloud, and it invites both chiming in and imitating the dinosaur's movements (preferably sans mud). Better still, the sturdy pages are sufficiently coated for easy wiping off if muddy fingers do happen to turn them." -- Publishers Weekly "This book will entertain kids in storytime as well as young independent readers. A solid general purchase for most libraries." -- School Library Journal