Member Reviews
A fun graphic novel for younger readers. Lots of action and dinosaurs.
I find this little book to be quite interesting and educative in an adventurous and exciting way. This little story would inspire kids about history and prehistoric animals, it would also inspire them to use their imagination a lot more. A rather jovial and fun book.
Cute story that sneaks in educational facts. The graphics were complimentary.
I have read another book starring the little tails duo so I was delighted to get an ARC of this book.
I am a massive fan of dinosaurs too so it was a double bonus! I really enjoyed the book, the story was great as normal and I loved their little journey back in time - 5 stars
I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.
I loved the Little Tails in the Jungle book, so I was already interested in more books from these 2 characters. So when I saw this book up on Netgalley and saw it featured dinosaurs (!!) I just had to press the Read Now button. I adore dinosaurs, I love Little Tails, so this had to be good.
Plus points to the Back to the Future reference at the beginning.
So the book already started off in a brilliant way. A cardboard plane? A kitchen clock so you can go back in time? How does this construction work in the first place. :P
And thus their adventure starts as they land in prehistoric times. Oh boy, I just loved it. All those dinosaurs, including my favourite the mighty T-rex. I just adored how the illustrator drew the dinosaurs. Each artist has their way of drawing/animating dinosaurs, and sometimes they don't work, but in this one they really did. Though I am still not all that happy that all those cool dinosaurs suddenly have feathers and often look like overgrown chickens. Give me back my reptiles any day.
I loved that on each page you have a comic and then a gorgeous, vivid painting/illustration of the dinosaur/animal mentioned in the comic. Often they also overlapped (like the one where they have to run for a Pterodactyl).
We first start off pretty far in the Dinosaur period, but slowly time passes and we meet animals (like the mammoth), and more. I hadn't expected that at all. I just thought this would be about pre-history/dinosaurs. All good though, I quite like this.
Like I said in my previous Little Tails review, I love that the main characters are a dog and a squirrel and that they are such good friends.
So, another success in the Little Tails series, I should really find the other books in this series.
Our three year old absolutely loved this showing the title will be well loved by the smallest of dinosaur fans. Chipper and Squizzo drew him in with their funny conversations, and he loved the contrast between the comic strip pictures of them and the larger, vibrant colors of the dinosaurs. He was interested in their time traveling cardboard contraption flying machine as much as the dinosaurs. We love stories where children are introduced to history and facts through a fun and accessible story.
Using comic panels, beautiful illustrations, time travel and a couple of really cute characters to narrate Frederic Brremaud has created the perfect book for young dinosaur lovers.
The illustrations by Federico Bertolucci are just so colorful and eye catching you can't help but pour over all the minute details especially since the dinosaur panels are in stark contrast to the panels with the narrating characters.
Brremaud did a great job with those practically impossible to pronounce dinosaur names so the reader will know which ones they are learning about. There is tons of neat information about insects, land animals, sea animals, those that take to the air and scientific principles like evolution. Just when you think it's over you're treated to a bit extra with factoids about the animals and a small history lesson.
Kids will find this book easy to read and parents will love that their kids are learning something.