The Three Little Dinosaurs

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: ... My 4 year old son LOVES this book, and is dreading the return to the library. Maybe the jokes and dialogue aren't up to par for some adults, but my husband and I also both loved the book. (Which is good, since we've read it at least once a day, if not more, for the past 2 weeks!) And the illustrations are hilarious - we picked up the book at the library because the dinos looked like the ones from "The 10 Little Dinosaurs" which we already own and love. We will be buying this book for our home collection!

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Summary: Superb re-telling
Review: As a soon to be teacher, this will definately be a book found on my classroom shelf. The artwork is great, the characters are witty, and it brings the Three Little Pigs up to today's lifestyle in sarcasm and in the pictures. I recommend this to anyone.

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Summary: Superb re-telling
Review: As a soon to be teacher, this will definately be a book found on my classroom shelf. The artwork is great, the characters are witty, and it brings the Three Little Pigs up to today's lifestyle in sarcasm and in the pictures. I recommend this to anyone.

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I've read and reviewed most of the basic tellings of "The Three Little Pigs", as well as most of the variants. Here's my take on it.

This variant has a great premise of dinosaurs instead of pigs. It sticks with the plot enough to be familiar, but adds plenty of intriguing new twists. However, it just isn't very well carried out. The dialogue is inane, and it contains many attempted jokes that just aren't funny. For example, the T. Rex continually calls the dinos "pigs", which is out of place to the extent that I thought it was a typo the first time. The artist is obviously very talented (see the candy bar on page 2) but the pictures are really too cartoony, and the scale keeps changing. How big is the T.Rex compared to the young dinosaurs? It's too bad Harris couldn't have spent more time on this story and developed a better done version.

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Summary: Good ideas, poor execution
Review: I've read and reviewed most of the basic tellings of "The Three Little Pigs", as well as most of the variants. Here's my take on it.

This variant has a great premise of dinosaurs instead of pigs. It sticks with the plot enough to be familiar, but adds plenty of intriguing new twists. However, it just isn't very well carried out. The dialogue is inane, and it contains many attempted jokes that just aren't funny. For example, the T. Rex continually calls the dinos "pigs", which is out of place to the extent that I thought it was a typo the first time. The artist is obviously very talented (see the candy bar on page 2) but the pictures are really too cartoony, and the scale keeps changing. How big is the T.Rex compared to the young dinosaurs? It's too bad Harris couldn't have spent more time on this story and developed a better done version.

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Summary: Rave review from a 5 year old.
Review: My 5 year old was rolling with laughter after reading this book. He kept repeating.."Yeah, I got a dentist appointment.", for about three days. That alone speaks for itself. He carried it to Grandma's house and was very disappointed when we had to return it to the library.

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Summary: Rave review from a 5 year old.
Review: My 5 year old was rolling with laughter after reading this book. He kept repeating.."Yeah, I got a dentist appointment.", for about three days. That alone speaks for itself. He carried it to Grandma's house and was very disappointed when we had to return it to the library.

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Summary: perfect for the little dinosaur fan!
Review: My 5yr old loves this book. Well, he loves dinosaurs and we saw this story and had to get it. We both laugh everytime we read it.

A TRex, rather than the big bad wolf, thinks he is going to make cheeseburgers out of the three little dinosuars. Each gets away even though the TRex refers to them as piggies! It's a hoot; clever story and funny illustrations.

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Summary: Wonderfully Entertaining!
Review: The classic tale of the three little pigs with a clever & humorous twist! (Unlike the original where two of the pigs are eaten, the dinosaurs are all brothers who outwit the big, bad Tyranasaurus Rex). The writing and illustrations are were incredibly funny and imaginative. My 4 year old and 18 month old requested that this book be read over and over! It is a book which adults will enjoy reading and children will want to hear again and again.

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Summary: Review from Independent Publisher Magazine Nov/Dec 1999
Review: The following review is from Independent Publisher Magazine's Nov/Dec 1999 issue: The Three Little Dinosaurs delights and tickles! I chuckled over the gestures of the roller blading, video game playing dinosaur who was quite satisfied, at first, with his house made of grass. That is until Tyrannosaurus Rex came to blow it down. Yes, this is a wonderful adaptation of the three little pigs story. The antics of these very modern dinosaur brothers and their arch enemy Rex has the reader entranced right up to the surprise ending. My quite squirmy first graders sat stock still with apt attention while I read it to them. "Again" echoed around the circle as I finished. The adults I shared it with were fascinated. Sure sign of a winner! The illustrations are as whimsical as the easy flowing text. I love the detailed pictrues with touches such as the bandaid on the tail of the scholarly brother, the scattered sports paraphernalia of the body-builder dino, and the gooey texture of the opened candy bar. This is a true marriage of illustration and text. The book for four to ten year olds is a must! -- Judith Naase