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“WE DON‘T EAT OUR CLASSMATES! Please spit them out at once!”

In We Don't Eat Our Classmates, Penelope Rex, a young dinosaur, eagerly starts school, but her excitement turns to confusion when her classmates turn out to be... lunch! Through vibrant illustrations and humor, this delightful tale explores themes of empathy, acceptance, and the challenges of making friends. Join Penelope on her hilarious journey to discover the importance of kindness and understanding in building friendships!

We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins is a whimsical picture book that follows Penelope Rex, a dinosaur navigating school and friendship. The vibrant, bold illustrations bring humor and emotion, contrasting Penelope‘s playful ferocity with her human classmates. The story delivers a heartfelt message about empathy, kindness, and embracing differences, making it both entertaining and meaningful for young readers.

This is a classic! I love the question Penelope has at the start: how many teeth will her classmates have? Is that foreshadowing? It seems too obvious. Like "Where are you going with that axe?". What's the literary device? Maybe it's just foreshadowing, but I think it needs more E.B. White significance.

“Once Penelope found out what it was like to be someone‘s snack, she lost her appetite for children.”

This story can be used in the classroom for a variety of activities such as creative writing where students write the story from the perspective of another student or theme discussion. This is a funny book that would be good to introduce a discussion about classroom rules.

This is a humorous and heartwarming story about Penelope Rex, a young T-Rex who starts her first day at school only to find out the other students are children. The vibrant illustrations complement the humor and message of the story, which reminds kids and adults alike about the importance of being yourself while also being kind and respectful to others.

I love this book as the message it gives is one that my dad stressed to me as a child. I think that the message treat others how you would like to be treated is so important for all students to hear.

“You see, Penelope, children are the same as us on the inside, just tastier.”

This book is a lighthearted book about a dinosaur that can't help but eat the classmates. This is a good book for younger students about inclusivity and making new friends. The overall theme of this book is treat others the way you want to be treated, which is an important theme for younger kids.

This book is about a young T-Rex named Penelope Rex who has her first day of school. She can't wait to meet her classmates but she struggles because they are human and look so tasty what will she do. She learns the hard why and needs to understand and learn that she cannot eat her classmates if she wants to make friends with them.

We Don't Eat Our Classmates is a super cute fiction book. It is written by Ryan T. Higgins and it was published in 2018. It is about Penelope Rex's first day of school and she can't wait to meet her classmates. However, her classmates are very tasty. She also gets a taste of her own medicine. This book has won the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award, the Charolette Zolotow Award, and the Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award.

Published in 2019, This book is about The first day of school of Penelope Rex and she is very nervous that she won't make friends. She got to school and found out they were all humans. On her first day of school, she eats the whole class and when the class fish tries to eat her she gets a taste of her own medicine. She then becomes friendly with her classmates and doesn't eat them anymore.

Awards:
Choice book

Genre:
Fiction

We Don't Eat Our Classmates was written by Ryan T. Higgins. This book came out in 2018, and is a great book for children who are starting school. It can ease some anxiety children may have, and let them have a good laugh. This book has not won an award, but the author is a known award winning author/illustrator! Great read!

The library is closed so I can cover kindergarten. Rawr!

I love this one! Penelope is a freaking adorable T. Rex. The story is so funny, but has a great message. ❤️🦖 I have put the second book on hold now, plus a few more by Higgins.

This award-winning (Irma Black Award, E.B. White Read-Aloud Award, SC Picture Book Award, GA Children‘s Book Award) MF picture book brings colorful illustrations and a meaningful lesson to life. Penelope the T-Rex just couldn‘t resist eating her delicious classmates, that is, until one day, when the class goldfish tried to eat Penelope. Drive home the important lesson of treating others how you want to be treated.

When you tell your 5 year old to pick out one bedtime story...🤷🏻‍♀️ he is my kid after all #fourstorieslater #wedontestourclassmates #maxithetaxi #rememberingvera #spongebobgoestocamp #familytime #makingmemories

This F story is about a dinosaur named Penelope who goes to school for the first time. She finds out her classmates are children and she immediately starts eating them. Penelope learns at the end that in order to make friends she has to treat them the way she would like to get treated. Students can read this with their teacher and see different point of views of the text.

This is such a great RF book to bring in an Elementary classroom and use as a RA. It is a cute take on don't do to other what you wouldn't want done to yourself. Poor Penelope the dinosaur wants to fit in, but keeps trying to eat the other students. Thanks to the help of the class goldfish she learns her lesson of why you shouldn't eat your classmates. More on the author at https://www.rodeenliterary.com/ryan-t-higgins.

I‘ve started my annual outreach program to the local elementary school with this comic gem. Penelope Rex starts school only to find out her class is full of children— delicious, delicious children. Great for conversations about being a good friend and/or classmate, as well as the golden rule in general. 🦖

We Don‘t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins would be a great fictional picture book to use at the beginning of the school year. It‘s about a young T.Rex starting school for the first time and cannot stop eating her fellow classmates! This story would be a great resource for a RA as the children would laugh and giggle throughout the entire story! A great activity for this book can be found at

My treasures from the mall yesterday. Going back again in a little bit. I‘m going to try to restrain myself. No promises. 🤣🤣🤣❤️ 📚

I‘m watching the debates and cleaning out my phone as my iPad is busy streaming CNN.

This was my Sunday raid at BN. #bookhaul

Pops were 3 for $20. Josh picked out a gold demongorgon but he had already grabbed it before I got my picture

Today's #BookHaul is more for the Toddlersaurus than for me, since we ran out of time. I guess I'll just have to go finish shopping another day! Darn. 😄

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I HAVE TO BUY A COPY OF THIS BOOK FOR MYSELF!. It is even better than “I Would Really Like to Eat a Child”I. A perfect book to have kids laughing out loud. I will read it as many times as they ask for as long as I don‘t have to make 300 tuna fish sandwiches.
#BBRC #AtoZofpicturebooks

This book was hilarious and cute! Ryan Higgins does it again. #chompchomp #friendsnotfood

Omg this book was hilarious and a huge hit at our house!!! My 10yo son and I literally took turns reading it back to back 4 times bc it was gold!! Now to go search other books by this author per kiddos request! Thanks @Krisjericho for posting this the other day!!

My kiddos have my sort of sick sense of humor and thought this was hilarious. I think it teaches a pretty decent lesson about empathy, too. Super funny.

Penelope is a T. rex. When she goes to school for the first time she finds her classmates are human, so she eats them. But you‘re not supposed to, so she spits them back out. Now Penelope is having trouble making friends. Through the story she gains empathy and rebuilds trust.

This book is so much fun that I‘ve read it to my 2nd and 4th grader multiple times. It would be best for kindergarten, but the humor is so good older kids will go for it.

I am SO far behind on posting reviews or even just random blurbs about what I‘ve been reading. I compose Litsy posts in my head then don‘t have the energy to post them (does this happen to anyone else?)

Anyway, here are some of our favorite picture books from the summer. We took a huge haul back to the library last week. I was hoping to clear off my card but we ended up getting almost as many back out. 🤦🏻‍♀️

P.S. I ❤️ Ryan T. Higgins.

We Don't Eat Our Classmates is a wonderful book filled with funny little moments. Penelope Rex must deal with the aftermath of temporarily eating her classmates on the first day at her new school. When she tells her dad she had a bad day, he immediately knows she ate the kids. Which makes me wonder: why didn't he warn her that her classmates were children and instruct her not to eat them???