Author & Illustrator: James Gurney
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Genre: Utopia/Dystopia, picture
Age Range: 3-6
Summary: A boy named Gideon is an orphan and finds trouble fitting in dinotopia. He finds a hurt pterosaur, Razzamult, and decides to escape the dinotopia. Gideon takes Razzamult and other pterosaurs with him by flying a skimmer. Gideon finally reaches the new world he wanted to reach and ran into triceratops in this island. All of these different dinosaurs helped him reach highnest on the island he had been looking for. As they reached the highnest they Gideon and the other dinosaurs were being attacked by Drones and people from Dinotopia where he used to live. Finally the people from Dinotopia brought the air scorpion out and caught Gideon. Gideon's friends (other dinosaurs) chewed up wires and caused the flying scorpion to ignite. The pterosaurs took Gideon and his friends back to land safely.
Response: I did not enjoy this book at all. It is very complex and uses so many imaginative ideas. I would not recommend this book, but it would be interesting for boys to read because of their creativeness and imaginative brains they have. The book made me feel bored and uninterested. I don't think I would ever read this book to my class, but I would leave it on the shelf for the students to read if they wanted to.
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