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Tyrannosaurus Drip

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Tyrannosaurus Drip is a charming children's picturebook about a conflict between dinosaurs. The peaceful, plant-eating duckbill dinosaurs live across the river from the ferocious, meat-eating T-Rexes. And what the T-Rexes want to eat most is duckbill dinosaur meat! When a duckbill egg hatches in a T-Rex nest, the little duckbill named Drip finds that he just can't adapt to their carnivorous ways. Not only does little Drip find solace with the other duckbills, he proved clever and heroic enough to save them all from the T-Rex menace! The whimsical illustrations add the perfect touch to this delightful dino-adventure.

Great book and adored by my 5 year old. The rhyming is really fun to read!

If you are buying this book for a dino-nerd, beware. Our 4yo was not impressed that the T-Rexes have 3 fingers. "But Mommy! They're NOT T-Rexes, see, three fingers not two! They must be Giganotosauruses because they can't be Allosauruses because they lived in the Late Jurassic, not the Late Cretaceous." The presence of Compsognathus (from the Jurassic) will also rile your resident dino-nerd. The parasaurolophi have one too few fingers, but you would have to have a Very Serious Dino-Nerd for them to pick up on that.

This story has rhyming verse, lovable characters and an entertaining and witty story - this is a super book. I first stumbled upon it at our local library. After my 2 year old and 5 year old loved it equally, I renewed our "check" on the books. After they asked me to read it during playdates and it had a kindergardener and a 4 year old (friends) totally silent and mesmerized, I finally bought this book to keep on hand. Rave reviews from every child I've ever read it to.

My kids love this book and I love reading it to them. The illustrations are whimsical and fun. The rhyming is great. My kids chant along. :) I highly recommend!

Wonderful story for many age groups, boys or girls. Both my grandchildren love it. Reading it to them is so enjoyable due to the poetic rhyme ingeniously thought out to portray the story of a dinosaur that is different from the rest. After I had read it for about the tenth time, I realized what a great book to get for vegetarians ! One type of dinosaur group are meat eaters, but the other group are plant eaters. Very witty of the author, Julia Donaldson. Sending cheers of applause on a great children's book !

I have yet to purchase a Julia Donaldson book that my toddler does not love! Donaldson does her stories just right. They all have great characters that capture a toddler's interest and a flowing story line that's (relatively) complex and yet easy to understand and follow. This book is no different - like Donaldson's others, this one is a definite buy!

My 3 year old grandson loves this book--wonderful drawings, and a story he can follow.

I found this book a little scary, but my three year old grandson adores it It has been a nightly bed-time read for the past six weeks.
Well written as always (although some of the lines to not scan as neatly as other Donaldson writing) Illustrations are charming although I prefer the style of the illustrations for Stick Man.

WE LOVE JULIA's books! She is a wonderful, fun, joyous writer who tells fabulous tales with a subtle lesson in each one. We own almost everything by her now.