'Jurassik Diaries Vol. 1' by Philip Osbourne is a book for younger readers that is part prose and part graphic novel.

Martin is smart and has made enemies of the school bullies. He finds himself tranported back to the Jurassic era along with them and they form up sides with the dinosaurs. Martin's plan is to teach his dinosaurs 3 inventions: fire, the wheel, and game controllers.

Martin is a pretty annoying narrator and I found this a pretty unfunny story. There are a lot of these kind of books out right now and a lot better ones to recommend to your kids than this one.

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I had a great time reading this graphic novel. Martin arrives to the past by accident but sees he might be able to stop something bad from happening. At first very little progress is made and the arrival of some bullies doesn’t help. Yet slowly it looks like a good plan gets put into motion. As this story comes to a close it is clear this adventure is far from over.

Usually, I like to think that I am pretty perceptive of symbolism and figurative language in stories; however, this one made me doubt my skills and abilities. I am still unsure if the dinosaurs were supposed to be dinosaurs or if they represented people. And I am still not sure who all the characters were. If the story was meant to be a little chaotic and was written to make you doubt your sanity, it did a great job! I felt a little jumbled while reading it, but I liked the idea of Martin going back in time to educate dinosaurs on technology and try to save them from glaciation. The science was bite-sized, but understandable for kids and presented in a way that would make them laugh (like trying to make matches with materials in the Jurassic time period.

I did LOVE the illustrations; they made this book fun! They were well drawn and humorous. I feel like I really got to know the personality of the different dinosaurs through these drawings. And I liked some of the schemes they came up with as well.

Oh dear. Less of a graphic novel than one of those young readers designed as a diary, here in full colour, this concerns a bratty, unlikeable squirt who took a magic bus a stop too far and ended up stranded in the world of Jurassic dinosaurs. Therefore he thinks it's up to him to educate them all, prove to the T rexes that they were vegetarian and not kid-eaters all along, and develop their minds to save them from the ice age. Er... Plot-wise and presentation-wise, this is a whole messy heapa all-over-the-place, with the text both in script and on an inscribed tablet in the visuals at times, and no end of ungainly busyness. Not appealing, not intelligent, not ever worth considering.

I might not be the intended audience of this book but I read loads of children books and middle grade. The premise was good but this just didn’t work for me. It wasn’t especially smoothly flowing, nor overly interesting or funny. The illustrations had too much text on them and they were mostly word-for-word copies from the main text.

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I thought the premise for this book was really fun and creative, but it didn't quite live up to my expectations. The illustrations are great and contribute to the story. My only complaint related to the illustrations was that the pictures sometimes contained the same content that was written - why have children read the same things twice on the same page. The tone of the writing may appeal to the audience for which it is written, but I'm not 100% sure about that. It's a little too snarky and some of the references/jokes will probably go over their heads.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Jurassik Diaries, Vol. 1 by Philip Osbourne is an adorable children's book that combines text and pictures in the style of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The story revolves around Martin, an unpopular kid who suddenly finds himself in prehistoric times. What are the other humans like during this time? What the dinosaurs like? Will they be friendly or scary?

Overall, Jurassik Diaries, Vol. 1 is a lovely adventure that will appeal to the dinosaur-loving kid in your life. One highlight of this book are the vocabulary words. I wasn't expecting to see words like "narcissist" in a children's book. I think it's great that children will be introduced to vocabulary words like this while reading the book. Learning how to determine vocabulary words in a context is an important skill for school and also in life. If you're intrigued by the description, I highly recommend that you check out this book when it comes out in April!

I have to say the illustrations by Roberta Procacci where very colorful and fun. The book was geared to middle school students. It tells the story of Martin who is a science buff and he takes a bus and arrives in Jurrassika. It is full of all types of dinosaurs all with different personalities and talents. He is trying to teach them how to not be extinct. They are not getting it but he keeps trying. This book would be good for the child who likes and is interested in dinosaurs. I recommend this book for ages 7-11.

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