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Trouble on Thunder Mountain

Trouble on Thunder Mountain
By Russell Hoban

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A children's picture book about market forces, modern architecture and ants. The O'Saurus family of modern dinosaurs live happily on Thunder Mountain until the evil J.M. Flatbrain from Megafreight International evicts them to make way for a plastic mountain theme park.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #3943238 in Books
  • Published on: 1999-06-21
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 40 pages

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 3-The thoroughly modern O'Saurus family of Thunder Mountain owns a TV and a VCR, and watch Rocky Dinosaur movies. Even so, the dark side of contemporary life catches up to them when J. M. Flatbrain of Megafright International sends them a letter saying that they have to move. His company wants to level their home in order to build "a hi-tech plastic-mountain theme park" on their mountain. How the dinosaurs prevail over Flatbrain and his robot-monsters makes for a wonderfully quirky story full of humor and drama. Blake's signature watercolors capture so much emotion with just a few sketchy lines that he makes the artwork look effortless. Hoban's writing is equally skilled. He compares manufactured entertainment to such simple pleasures as fresh air, picnics, and birds singing; he exposes the steamroller/bullying tactics of big business; and portrays an uprooted family (one can draw comparisons to anything from the Indian's displacement to wild animals forced out by suburban sprawl and shopping centers). The ideas are there for the taking but they never get in the way of the story. It is rare for a book with such serious themes to be so much fun.
Lauralyn Persson, Wilmette Public Library, IL
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
This wry tale of big business versus small people, conservation versus development, gets its message across with great humour. Mr Flatbrain of Megafright International tries to evict the O'Saurus family from Thunder Mountain to create a hi-tech plastic mountain theme park. But the O'Sauruses come up with a better idea and, needless to say, the result is hilarious. (6-9 yrs) (Kirkus UK)