Synopsis
It's not every little boy who gets to meet a baby dinosaur, much less travel back in time with him to the Age of the Dinosaurs. But that's exactly what happens to young Wilbur in this engaging fantasy about a trip back to a time some 140 million years ago.
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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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