This is a sweet book marrying two very unlikely themes... dinosaurs and dentistry. A young child is pondering if dinosaurs brush their sharp pointy teeth, floss, ever have to get braces or do they use toothpaste and mouthwash to keep their teeth shiny and pearly white. All these questions swirl around and around his head while en route to a routine dental checkup.


" Did a Megalosaurus's molars need cleaning?

" Did a Brachiosaurus ever need braces?"

"Did a Camarasaurus ever get a crown?"

"Did a Stegosaurus like to floss?'

" Did a Centrosaurus ever get cavities?" ... to cite a few.


This fun picture book with it's whimsical illustrations presents eleven "tooth terms" that kids will be familiar with and at the back of book includes an Oral Hygiene Glossary and a Bibliography of some online sources to help clarify names, pronunciations, and facts about the dinosaurs starring in this book. I always find these add-ons are wonderful for kids to go deeper and explore the themes further if they so wish.

Shining the light on dinosaur dental hygiene is a subliminal way of encouraging kids that taking care of their own teeth is a very good thing to do. This book can be a catalyst for discussions regarding care of your teeth.

Do you have a child who loves dinosaurs? How is that child with taking care of their teeth? This book combines dental care with dinosaurs. Using whimsical illustrations of dinosaurs, dental vocabulary and fun, children will learn what they need to do to take care of their teeth. Afterall, they do not want to become extinct like the dinosaurs. My grandson thought this book was funny. He actually has not problem with brushing and eating properly so it was just a fun read for him, but we did talk about his visits to the dentist when it was finished. Very minimal text is in the book.

This is such a fun picture book. It can be a great tool for kids who love dinosaurs and hate/fear the dentist. The pictures are adorable, and the text is easy to read. It also contains two glossaries at the end: one of the dinosaurs mentioned, and one of the dental terms. This would be a wonderful teaching tool for young students.

I would like to thank NetGalley for my advance digital review copy in return for an unbiased view.

This was a good little children's book however the reason I am not awarding it more stars is because it has a more sinister lesson to the end of it that may traumatise your child.

Read this to my 3 year old nephew. He liked the illustrations in the book but struggled to stay focused on the story. I think his a little too young to understand the meaning behind the storyline. He did however, make his own story up about the dinosaurs going to the dentist.

While reading the book I also learnt some of the names of the different dinosaurs. I liked the information about the dinosaurs in the back of the book as it also helps to sound out how the names of each dinosaur are pronounced.

Overall liked the book.

A perfect storyline for kids who love dinosaurs with the dental hygiene care being a second bonus. Illustrations beyond cute and along with storyline are on point for the age bracket suggested. Will definitely be buying this for the kids in my family once it’s released.

A cute, vocabulary-building picture book focused on dinosaurs and dentistry. What better way to get kids familiar with dentistry and its various terms than by using delightful little dinos?! And it includes a great section defining all the unfamiliar words in the back, like any good reference book should.

This is a very unique book, tying together a popular topic (dinosaurs) with a perhaps not so popular topic (dentistry). I'm not sure the art would capture the kids' attention and I found the writing style of continual questions a little off-putting. The glossary of both dinosaurs and dental words at the end redeemed this one for me. I can see this book being used in a lot of ways in a story time with early elementary students and leading to great discussions and even early, basic research projects!

My nephew is entering the dinosaur phase. He also has a habit of ‘hiding’ his toothbrush; he clearly has yet to get his father’s dental focus. So of course, this book would be just PERFECT for him:
It really is an awesome book; it doesn’t shy away from difficult dinosaur names, and even has a little information at the back about each one. I loved the ‘twist’ at the end and how it l’ll encourage little kids to brush their teeth.
I think this will be a perfect Christmas buy for my nephew :)

Like many others I have a fairly significant case of dentophobia. My childhood dentist, in their infinite wisdom, told me that because I have deep crevasses in my teeth it was inevitable that I’d end up with a mouthful of fillings regardless of how well I brushed. This was after they’d already treated me throughout my childhood, pulling all of my stubborn baby teeth that refused to leave me.

So, while this is a children’s book and I was reading it with that in mind, part of me was also keen to see if it had any wisdom to share with someone who hasn’t been to a dentist since their wisdom teeth were removed. I’m no closer to making a dental appointment now than I was before reading this book.

I liked the idea of applying dental fears to dinosaurs because dinosaurs make everything better, but overall the book just didn’t work for me. The rhyming worked sometimes and at other times it felt forced, for example, rhyming ‘toothpick’ with ‘picnic’.

The pictures were cute and colourful. There’s a dinosaur with braces. A family sit together munching on their lunch during a picnic with the sun smiling overhead. There’s even a dinosaur in need of dentures, wrinkly mouth and all. There’s some facts about each dinosaur featured in the book at the end and also a glossary of toothy terms.

I thought it might be me being picky so I read it to my mother, who worked as a dental nurse before she retired. Naturally I pretended she was a child I was reading it to and showed her the illustrations as I read. It didn’t work for her either. Having said that, I haven’t read this book to a kid with dentophobia and a love of dinosaurs. Did Dinosaurs Have Dentists? is scheduled to be released in September 2018. If you want to check it out for yourself, here’s the publisher’s book link: https://www.schifferbooks.com/did-dinosaurs-have-dentists-6504.html.

Thank you very much to NetGalley and Schiffer Kids, an imprint of Schiffer Publishing Ltd. for the opportunity to read this book.