If the dinosaurs came back

Bernard Most

Book - 1978

A young boy who wishes for the return of dinosaurs imagines how useful they would be.

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Genres
Picture books
Published
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich c1978.
Language
English
Main Author
Bernard Most (-)
Physical Description
unpaged : col. ill
ISBN
9780152380205
9780808536116
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Review by Booklist Review

Gr. 1-3. A child's world is invaded by a bright parade of prehistoric creatures in this imaginative treatment.

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Review by Horn Book Review

A playful exploration of how handy dinosaurs would be if they returned -- mowing lawns, scaring away thieves, giving dentists lots of work -- portrays dinosaurs in the highly appealing guise of giant pets. In this miniature edition, only the dinosaurs are rendered in color in the simple line drawings, suggesting how much more fun the world would be with a dinosaur or two around. From HORN BOOK 1996, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Judging from revent juvenile book lists dinosaurs have come back, but here that's just the dream of a kid who imagines a line of newspaper-reading commuters being carried to work on a docile giant's back. . . or a crested one replacing a lawnmower. . . a tall one serving as a ladder. . . triceratops plowing fields with his horns. . . allosaurs chopping down trees with their teeth. . . and so on. There are many more instances of dinosaurs' imagined usefulness, and on the last page Most gives the names for the 23 different ones he has pictured. The whole idea proves less than fertile as we move from one example to another, none of them especially witty, but other dinosaur enthusiasts might be induced to join the game with job assignments of their own. And no doubt there are earnest upbringers among us who will approve the tameness and productivity of these domesticated beasts. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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