Some tea parties are for grown-ups. Some are for girls. But this tea party is for a very special guest. And it is important to follow some rules . . . like providing comfortable chairs, and good conversation, and yummy food. But sometimes that is not enough for special guests, especially when their manners are
Some tea parties are for grown-ups.
Some are for girls.
But this tea party is for a very special guest.
And it is important to follow some rules . . .
like providing comfortable chairs,
and good conversation,
and yummy food.
But sometimes that is not enough for special guests,
especially when their manners are more Cretaceous than gracious . . .
Introducing Tea Rex, a guest that just about any child would love to have to tea!
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love everything except the actual physical book : I added this to my daughter’s bday wish list while it was still a pre-order. It arrived today as a gift and we read it right away. LOVE the illustrations and the story. She quickly picked up on the subtle humor and increasing irony as the story unfolded. My daughter is very into both dinosaurs and tea parties, so this is a delightful tale, and spot on appropriate for a 4 year old. My only complaint is that the book is so cheaply made. The pages are wafer thin so images from previous/next pages…
Charming In this whimsical guide on tea-time etiquette, a genteel narrator–every bit as refined and thorough as Miss Manners–walks the reader through the protocol of inviting a dinosaur (namely a T-Rex) to tea. Idle uses dinosaurs to showcase comical limitations of the common tea party and improvisations that a proper host must make (for example, the hostess’s hat is the only container big enough for a T-Rex). The juxtaposition of this fantastical reality against the matter-of-fact instruction…
Gift My daughter loved this book and requested it for her birthday, even at 32 years of age she can still appreciate children’s books.