Synopsis
Mother dinosaur is proud of her new baby, even though she is the littlest dinosaur anyone has ever seen. The littlest dinosaur can’t play with her older brothers and sisters for fear of getting stepped on, and she can’t venture near the mud flats for fear of falling in. The only thing she can do is sit high up on a hill—until one day, when she sees another dinosaur on another hill in the distance . . .
Award-winning author/illustrator Michael Foreman presents a celebration of friendship and being yourself that will appeal to all readers, whether little or big.
Publishers Weekly
The title character of this predictable story seems destined for a life on the sidelines-if one of his neighbors doesn't accidentally step on him first. After all, "he's no bigger than a dinosaur's toe," as his father puts it. But when the rest of the dinosaur herd gets trapped in the mud, the undersize hero enlists the help of another lonely outsider-a huge blue "long neck" he has glimpsed in the distance-and saves the day. The prolific author/artist's scenes showing the exchanges between the enormous and the tiny dinosaurs have an R.O. Blechman-like poignancy, and the mud incident stirs up some sense of urgency. But for the most part, the story is on autopilot as it moves toward the familiar wrap-up ("you may be the size of a bug, but you're as brave as a dinosaur one hundred times your size"). The prehistoric landscape is perfunctory, while the reptilian cast is blandly genial and generic. Ages 4-8. (May)
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