Finding her dinosaur hidden among the trees on a moonlit night, a little girl accompanies her enormous friend through the woods on a magical nighttime journey. By the author of The Last Dinosaur and Dinosaur for a Day.
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From Publishers Weekly
Bathed in moonlight and magic, Weatherby's first solo effort (he illustrated Jim Murphy's Dinosaur for a Day and The Last Dinosaur) effectively blends fantasy and realism in an original tale of a girl's nocturnal adventures with her unusual playmate. The story generates an instant appeal with its unlikely pairing of a diminutive, pink-nightgown-clad towhead and a benign creature so enormous it only appears once in its entirety (readers mostly glimpse just the tip of a tail, an eye, a head and neck, and so on). Weatherby amplifies the allure with his fetching cast of extras: fantastical fish, sleepy-eyed owls, a family of plump little raccoons who watch the activity from a nearby branch. Impressionistic acrylics overlayed with metallic paints yield interesting visual textures, both velvety in their softness and marble-like in their surface patterns. The setting-a mist-dappled forest-further enhances the bewitched mood, and when the girl comes down to breakfast the following morning with leaves in her hair, readers will want to believe that something extraordinary truly has transpired in this enchanted evening escapade. Ages 3-7.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2. A murky, moonlit forest is explored by a small girl riding atop a huge dinosaur in this nighttime odyssey sure to attract a wide audience of young dreamers. The mottled green dinosaur dominates the double-page views as the two friends play hide-and-seek, greet forest animals, drink at the river, swim, stretch high above the treetops, and finally return home at daybreak. Weatherby's paintings in acrylics and suffused metallics are dreamy and evocative. Opening and closing portraits of the child narrator have a rosy realism that begins to blur as she swings fearlessly from the dinosaur's neck and tail. The forest animals are realistic; the figure of the dinosaur is softer, but just as striking as the statuesque creatures the illustrator provided for Jim Murphy's The Last Dinosaur (1988) and Dinosaur for a Day (1992, both Scholastic). His spare, somewhat wooden text sketches the night's events, ending with a nice tongue-in-cheek exchange in the new day: "At breakfast, I yawn. 'How did you get leaves in your hair?' my mother asks me. 'I played with my dinosaur last night,' I tell her. 'That's nice,' she says." This romanticized fantasy is a satisfying encounter with the ever popular prehistoric giant.?Margaret Bush, Simmons College, Boston
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Entirely Enchanting!!,
By "debrar@nc.rr.com" (Morrisville, NC USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Dinosaur (Hardcover)
Take off on a magical dream with a girl and her dinosaur. My daughter adores this book ... can't get enough of it. The story is magical and the illustrations are some of the best I've seen in a children's book. It is just captivating! This would make such a great birthday present, along with a little green stuffed dinosaur, just like the one the girl is holding in the book.
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My Dinosaur,
By Teresa Claffee (Bel Air, MD United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Dinosaur (Hardcover)
This is absolutly one of my favorite books to read to my boys! It's a great fantasy story with a very friendly dinosaur. It's very, very different than any other dinosaur books we read. I think girls would really love it also!
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My daughter's favorite,
By Susan M. (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Dinosaur (Hardcover)
When I first read this story to my almost-3-yr old daughter at the library, I saw a look in her eyes I had never seen before. She was already fond of dinosaurs, but this book clearly helped her discover a new way to use her imagination and she loved it. I love it for the way the dinosaur is presented--magically and whimsically, rather than ferociously. It's a beautiful book.
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