My Lists
Featured Lists
Dinosaur Hunter
By Alphin, Elaine Marie
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06028-303-2 978-0-06028-304-9
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2003
Gr 2-3 When Ned finds dinosaur bones on his father's Wyoming ranch in the 1880s, a fossil hunter tries to trick him into giving them up. However, the astute boy is able to outwit the swindler and eventually sells his treasure to a collector who promises t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2004
The emphasis here is on the hunt, not the dinosaur—there's nary a live dinosaur to be seen, and we get only a glimpse of the fossilized skeleton young Ned Chapman finds on his father's Wyoming ranch. But that's okay, because readers ready for this advanced I Can Read book will have moved on from their preschool obsession and will welcome a story about unexpected discoveries, attempted swindling, and quick-wittedness. Alphin's historical backstory (related in an afterword) is that paleontologists scour...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
