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A lonely couple wishing for children hatches three dinosaur eggs and raises the resulting beasts to create an unusual but successful family
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PreSchool-Grade 1 Balding Alfred Watkins finds ``three enormous eggs,'' which he asks his chickens to hatch. Baby dinosaurs are born, and Alfred and his wife Mary become doting parents at lastto three very large children. These young dinosaurs do all of the things that children do, and the family lives happily ever after. Dinosaurs are perennial favorites among children, so this is bound to have an audience among the picture book crowd. The illustrations present a pleasant-looking couple in a humble setting. The beasts, each different from the other, are docile, smiling, and human-like in action and thought. This is an imagination stretcher reminiscent of Oliver Butterworth's The Enormous Egg (Little, 1956) for younger children; however, it lacks the humor and finesse of the older title. Virginia Opocensky, formerly at Lincoln City Libs . , Neb.
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An elderly English couple, Alfred and Mary Watkins, come across three large eggs, out of which hatch dinosaurs. They raise the dinos like children, bathing them, reading to them at bedtime and sending them to school. The creatures' size soon becomes troublesome in the cramped urban neighborhood, so the family moves to the country. Because they have had such a happy childhood, the dinosaurs decide that they will now look after Alfred and Mary, and they all live peacefully together. The potential humor in the story's premise goes largely untapped; the text and illustrations are flat andexcept for a few funny scenesrestrained. Readers' expectations of chaos and hilarity will remain mostly unfulfilled. Ages 3-7.
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- PublisherBarrons Juveniles
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0812049594
- ISBN 13 9780812049596
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages30
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