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Summary
They stoke the boiler, stow the luggage, and when hills are steep, they even get out and push. That's right, the thrill-seeking daredevil dinosaurs from Dinosailors are back, and now they're riding a train. But this train is more like a roller coaster--up, down, and faster and faster, until the dinos realize the brakes are out!
Laughs and thrills abound in this rip-snorting tale of reckless reptiles and their runaway train.
Author Notes
Deb Lund has written several picture books, including Monsters on Machines . She also rides a unicycle, teaches writing, and loves to visit schools. Deb lives in Greenbank, Washington.Visit her website at www.deblund.com . Howard Fine is the illustrator of many popular picture books. He lives with his family in White Plains, New York.Visit his website at www.howardfineillustration.com . "
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-The adventurous reptiles from Dinosailors (Harcourt, 2003) are back, this time boarding a train-as foreshadowed in the ending of the previous adventure. The stage is set by the endpapers, which depict the "dinocrew": the Stegosaurus is the conductor, the T. rex is the porter, etc. Engineer Brachiosaurus is appropriately clad in striped overalls and denim cap. After loading the train, the dinosaurs are ready for action, yet a series of misadventures awaits. Too heavy, they "dinopush" and later jetty the "dinofreight." After happily soaring through a tunnel, they enjoy the "roller-coaster dinoride"-until they have a harrowing incident with a missing bridge, leaving them "dinoflying" into a lake. The crew returns home for hugs, vowing never to board a train again. The final pages show the creatures looking curiously at a plane-. Though there is perhaps an overabundance of "dinowords," children will delight in them. The rollicking, rhyming text is great for reading aloud. Fine's playful, colorful dinosaurs are remarkably expressive and full of child appeal. The large scale of the book and the dynamic, dramatic quality of the pictures make it well suited for storytime sharing. And with such subject matter-dinosaurs and trains-who could go too far wrong? Although similar to John Steven Gurney's Dinosaur Train (HarperCollins, 2002), this book will be welcome in many collections.-Robin L. Gibson, Granville Parent Cooperative Preschool, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
This follow-up to Dinosailors follows the transportation-crazed reptiles as they work on and ride the rails. Once the dinocrew (wearing jaunty railroad caps) has loaded up the train with "Coal and lumber, oil and grain" and the prehistoric passengers have boarded (they ride atop the cars since they're far too big to fit inside), the train departs from its station on the plains and heads for the mountains. Fine renders his scenes of goofy, grinning and occasionally overall-wearing dinosaurs with a hilarious sense of skewed elegance-the painterly brushstrokes and luminous, almost romantic pastel hues make the pictures seem like natural history museum murals as imagined by a daft paleontologist. As in the first dino-tale, the journey soon devolves into a series of comic mishaps. At one point the scaly fellows get out to push the train (" `We think we can!' they dinosay"), and they end up soaking wet and huddled together on a single handcar for the trip back home, swearing, "We'll never take another train..." However, they hint that their traveling days are not over ("But how about a dinoplane?"). While not quite as rollicking an adventure as Dinosailors (or as gross), there's plenty of slapstick fun in these pages, and Lund shows no sign of exhausting her supply of dino-hybrid words (a "dinostoker" shovels coal while the train's engine "coughs and dinochugs") Whether youngsters are fans of trains, T-rexes or both, they'll find this outing dino-mite. Ages 3-7. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
It may be a bit dino-dependent on dino-words, but it's still a wild ride, combining two favorite preschooler themes: dinosaurs and trains. In this sequel to Dinosailors, the dinos take on different jobs on a train, with their trip ending up in a lake. Fine's gouache and watercolor paintings add energy and zest. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
In this hilarious new brouhaha, the prehistoric gang of Dinosailors (2003) return as train hoppers. Readers meet the crew on the endpapers before they set off: "The dinoboiler builds up steam. / Soon pistons pump a rhythmic theme." The locomotive begins teetering under the weight of the enthusiastic giants, so with a nod to The Little Engine that Could, " 'We think we can!' " they dinosay." The glorious paintings show off the dinosaurs in candy colors, some in their scaly hides, others sporting hats or coveralls. They travel through majestic mountains and vast plains. They reach dizzying heights, take swooping plunges and whiz through dark tunnels. But glee turns to fright as the adventurers spy the collapsed bridge ahead and discover the brakes are kaput. As they catapult off the edge and into the river, they decide that next time they will take to the friendly skies. Tails over scales better than John Steven Gurney's Dinosaur Train (2002), this is an ingenious combination of heart-thumping fun, romping dinosaurs and thrumming trains. This dinobook is definitely on the right track. (Picture book. 3-6) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
K-Gr. 2. The brightly hued, energetic saurian gang that tumbled eagerly atop a steam train at the end of Dinosailors0 (2003) find further peril and excitement in this rollicking continuation. It's a slow trip up the mountain, but a wild careen down: "A dark and narrow dinotunnel / Sucks and spits them through its funnel. / Out the shoot sic and down the slide, / A roller-coaster dinoride!" Though the outing ends in disaster at a washed-out bridge, young fans--particularly those who have already ridden on John Steven Gurney's Dinosaur Train0 (2002)--will happily join Fine's full-size, naturalistically rendered dinosaurs for the ride. And what's next? "We'll never0 take another train. . . . / But how about a dino plane0 ?" --John Peters Copyright 2006 Booklist