Dinosaur Dream - Hardcover

Nolan, Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027681459 ISBN 13: 9780027681451

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1990

Synopsis

A little boy falls asleep after reading a book about dinosaurs, and dreams that a baby apatosaurus is outside his window, and travels backward in time to help his new friend return home

About this title

About the Author:

Dennis Nolan is the author-illustrator of Wolf Child and The Castle Builder, winner of the Prix Zéphir in France, and the illustrator of The Legend of the White Doe by William Hooks (all Macmillan). He has also illustrated Joanne Ryder's Step Into the Night, the winner of a 1988 Parents' Choice Award for Illustration, Mockingbird Morning, and Under Your Feet Four Winds Press. A native of California, he lives with his wife in Massachusetts.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3-- There's too much highbrow hype and not enough good storytelling to make this book linger in readers' memories. Wilbur befriends Gideon, a baby dinosaur, in the middle of the night (or--is it only a dream? The trite plot gimmick doesn't help). The two of them travel back through time, exploring the Ice Age and the different eras of reptiles, until Gideon returns to the Jurassic period, where he belongs. Sure, this is a fantasy, so it's conceivable that Wilbur and Gideon could trek through the snows of the Ice Age, visiting woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. But writing fiction doesn't excuse misinformation. Wilbur's statement, "Soon we'll be out of the Ice Age and into the Age of Mammals," seems to exclude tigers and mammoths from Mammalia altogether. The painted illustrations, which at first look very attractive, work best when they stick to realism, such as a bird's-eye view looking down over the head of a Triceratops. But a closeup of Wilbur hugging Gideon, with glowing clouds in the background, is as cloying as sofa-sized painted sunsets. Try Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo (Harper, 1988) by William Joyce for a better-realized story about a dinosaur compadre. --Cathryn A. Camper, Minneapolis Public Library
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0027681459
• ISBN 13: 9780027681451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Nolan Dennis