Bernardosaurus says:
Four & Twenty Dinosaurs is a collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes with dinosaur twists.
My cover design shows four and twenty dinosaurs (count them) baked in a pie. On the title page, Mother Goose is flying away on a pteranodon while the goose looks on. In my first nursery rhyme, "Jack and Jill" are tumbling down a hill, except it isn't a hill but a green-colored brontosaurus disguised as a hill. In "Rock-a-bye-baby," I show the baby, cradle and all, being rescued just in time by a strong, gentle dinosaur. "London bridge is falling down" because mischievous little dinosaurs are tearing it down. But on the next page, helpful long-neck dinosaurs are building it up again. The old woman who lived in the show "had so many triceratopses she didn't know what to do."
In the last rhyme, I show a parent T-rex reading a copy of Four & Twenty Dinosaurs to a baby T-rex at bedtime: "The man in the moon, looked out of the moon, looked out of the moon and said, 'Tis time for all tyrannosauruses on Earth to think about getting to bed'!"
I dedicated Four & Twenty Dinosaurs to the wonderful High School of Art and Design, where I learned many of the skills I use today while working on my books. I am happy to see this book back in print. A paperback edition was published by Harcourt in 1999. (It was originally published by HarperCollins in 1990 after being rejected by Harcourt.) This becomes part of my growing collection of persistence stories: Never give up!