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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I think that this book is very interesting. A triceratops that was hatched out of a hen's egg, that was cool, and all the people, scientists, and politicans want to either see it, or study it, or get rid of it. I thought that Nate was lucky to have a pet dinosaur. It is a good book for middle schoolers to read.
I read this as a read aloud with my younger boys. We all really enjoyed it.
A lovely story about an unexpected event and a boy's devotion to an unusual pet. The story was written in the 1950s and made into a film in the 1960s. Sadly the main cultural change I detected was that traffic on the National Mall never stops, so Nate would have a lot of witnesses if he tried to walk Uncle Beasley now. The politicians still have their heads up their butts. People are still desperate to exploit the unusual for an edge in business. Hopefully the tendency to be stirred to actiob by the thought of losing something has not been lost, in light of the leaked decision to overturn womens rights to bodily autonomy.
I loved, loved, loved this book as a boy. The triceratops was (and still is) my favorite dino, and I first read this book on the family farm I stayed at every summer. My primary chore back then was to take care of the chickens, so the idea that a chicken would lay an egg that would hatch a triceratops felt like it was written just for me.
It is, of course, patently ridiculous, but Triceratops is technically a member of the ornithischian (“bird-hipped”) branch of dinosaurs, which is no doubt where Butterworth got the idea. Now, of course, we know that birds are descended from dinosaurs, but they are confusingly (and somewhat ironically) descended from the saurischian, or “reptile-hipped”, dinos. A more accurate version of this story would therefore have the chicken egg hatch a tiny T. rex or velociraptor. 🦖
I. Don’t. Care.
I want a triceratops to ride around on. 😄
It is, of course, patently ridiculous, but Triceratops is technically a member of the ornithischian (“bird-hipped”) branch of dinosaurs, which is no doubt where Butterworth got the idea. Now, of course, we know that birds are descended from dinosaurs, but they are confusingly (and somewhat ironically) descended from the saurischian, or “reptile-hipped”, dinos. A more accurate version of this story would therefore have the chicken egg hatch a tiny T. rex or velociraptor. 🦖
I. Don’t. Care.
I want a triceratops to ride around on. 😄
This is not one of those classics that stands the test of time. It is full of weird gender stuff (girls do not like dinosaurs, only want to become telephone operators or homemakers) and old white scientists who smoke too much. The premise seems interesting, but the story is boring, takes too long to go anywhere and while the idea of a dinosaur is neat, there is no emotional attachment to the creature by Nate, only a sense of entitled ownership. I quit. boo.
Fun to reread a childhood favorite! The "vintage-y" language makes the story just that much more fun. How fun to imagine a backyard chicken hatching a dinosaur!
This is the first chapter book I read entirely on my own and the reason Triceratops is my favorite dinosaur. Mostly what I remember about the book is how small the font size was...and that I learned the word "determined" wasn't pronounced "deh-tuhr-MYND." Important milestone in a young reader's life, that.