Product Description

Although they disappeared long ago, dinosaurs live on in children's imaginations. A young boy playfully imagines the "dinosaur who hatched in the backyard and grew to the size of the family car. . . . An appealing combination of fantasy and reality."--Kirkus Reviews. Full-color illustrations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #535953 in Books
• Published on: 1990-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780140507362
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
About midway into this story, what has appeared to be a young boy's wishful thinking becomes a smooth piece of nonfiction, charmingly packed with facts by Hennessy. The narrator tells how the dinosaur hatched, how large it grew and how much it weighed, in scenes that are part of his backyard. But soon the backgrounds change, and the dinosaur becomes part of the past, playing with the other species now extinct, on land that only millions of years later would become this child's neighborhood. Davis, illustrator of When Daddy Comes Home and Waiting for Mom, adds an appealing number of odd perspectives in what is becoming her characteristic souped-up pastels: a dinosaur foot next to a sandbox; a dinosaur jumping into the air, much larger than the house behind it; the boy and his sister, with a bushel- and wagonfull of lima beans, hoping for the dinosaur's return. Ages 3-8.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

This was a hit
My 3yr old loved this book. We had several new books on dinosaurs to choose from, and this is one he wanted to read over again. It's simple content brought dinosaur comparisons into his every day life: sandbox, basketball, cars, schoolbus, hide and seek and more...

The Dinosaur Who Lived In My Backyard
My son is 3 years old and totally into dinosaurs. He loves this book and we read it every night at bedtime. It is a book that relates the time of the dinosaur to todays world. Very good.

A Review by Arthur & Gabe
This story is about a dinosaur that lived in a little boy's backyard. The dinosaur's foot was bigger than the little boy & girl's sandbox. By the time the dino was five, the dino was bigger than the children's car.

We like that this story has dinos. We like the whole book. We think it would be for third graders and down.