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A review by trike
The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
5.0
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. 😄