Foreman's oddly superreal paintings effectively contrast the
dinosaur's tropical paradise with man's dismal world of factory
smoke and rubbish, but this fable is just as heavyhanded and
muddleheaded about pollution as Moose (KR 1972) and The Two Giants
(KR 1967) were about war. Foreman's dinosaurs inherit the earth
after a saurian second coming, rising from centuries deep
underground and slouching toward Gotham to reclaim what man has
destroyed in his singleminded construction and launching of a
rocket bound for a star. Somehow though when the man lands on the
star it turns out to be "the very same Earth he had once left
behind him," since made crisp and shimmering by the dinosaurs - who
now announce that "all of the earth belongs to everyone, not parts
of it to certain people." A creature most children associate with
maladaptation and ferocity makes a strange sort of savior for
anyone inclined to think about it, but the dinosaur does get off
one amusing (if patently senseless) line - "As a matter of fact our
heads are almost the same size, but my heart is much bigger than
yours" - and maybe we should be content that Foreman's heart is in
the right place. (Kirkus Reviews)
Dinosaurs have taken over the Earth! They're stomping and stamping all over the place. Children will love finding out why in this classic environmental tale from best-selling author Michael Foreman.
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