Dinosaurs are always welcome in early chapter books! This is a great series opener for newly independent readers.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an electronic copy to read in exchange for an honest review.

This is a pretty quick and easy beginner chapter book. It's great for a read aloud or for bedtime. My first grader likes it. The illustrations, timeline, and extra dino info only adds to the book!

Really fun adventure in a an easy to read format for early readers! This is a great way to get your dinosaur loving readers into moving from picture books into chapter books.

I received an electronic ARC from DK Children through NetGalley.
Part of the Dinosaur Club Series.
Jamie is part of the Dinosaur Club - an international web group of kids who love learning about dinosaurs. He and his mom have moved to be with his grandfather and their new home is a prime location to find fossils. While he is exploring, he finds a fossil he doesn't recognize. Readers see him use his tablet to scan it, send it to the group and get answers from members all over. One of the responders actually lives in the same area. They meet and set off exploring. Their journey takes them back in time to see several species in person. Stone captures the atmosphere and interactions among dinosaurs and shares at a level for mid-elementary readers. The illustrations are realistic and let readers feel they are a third child interacting with Cretaceous animals and world.
Also included is a timeframe for when dinosaurs lived and fact sheets for each of the species included in this book.
Looking forward to reading more from this series.

Great story I really liked it. I definitely recommend for any Dinosaur loving fan they're sure to enjoy dinosaur club

Finally!!! An early chapter book about dinosaurs that isn’t too scary! My two kids are dinosaur fanatics and I have almost every book on dinosaurs but I struggled to find appropriate chapter books on the subject. Dinosaur Club: The T-Rex Attack is great: adventurous without being too scary, fast paced, a good balance of fun and education, and a nice budding friendship as a sub plot. I read this with my 5 and 7 year old and they both enjoyed the friendship between the two characters and the adventure to dinosaur times. My 5 year old son loved the T-Rex fight while my 7 year old liked that it was short and wasn’t described in too much detail. What they both had a MAJOR problem with, though, was that one of the main dinosaurs in the book, the Wannanosaurus, resided in what is now China, not North America, and therefore would never have been in contact with the other dinosaurs mentioned in the book (Triceratops, Quetzalcoatlus, and T-Rex), who all roamed North America. Truth: I didn’t know that was even true until I read the facts section in the back of the book but my kids sure did! They kept telling me, “Mom, this is wrong! They mean Stygimoloch or Pachycephalosaurus, not the Wannanosaurus!” The thing is, kids who are into dinosaurs are INTO them and know far more than anyone gives them credit for - you can’t fool them! They know that the Stygimoloch (who shares many features with the Wannanosaurus) was found in North America and from the late Cretaceous period and therefore would have roamed with Triceratops and T-Rex while the Wannanosaurus would not have. This is a very simple fix that would have given more credibility to the book in the eyes of my kids. Other than that, though, the book was a win in all of our eyes! Definitely a book dino lovers should add to their collection as they progress from simpler books to chapter books.

So many thanks to NetGalley and the DK Publicity team for the ARC - my kids and I thoroughly enjoyed the advance read!