Title: Way too scary?
Product review: Absolutely gorgeous illustrations can't hide the realistic and graphic nature of this book. On first reading my 3 yr old remarked that the baby tricerotops' mummy would be very sad now that her baby was eaten and that she must be looking for him. I suppose one must balance the realities of animal life and the innocence of childhood, but with all the shootings and slashing of humans in our city of late, not to mention the escalating incidence of bullying, I found this book to glorify the violent nature of the tyrannosaurus' lifestyle a wee too much. 'Ripping', 'slicing', 'slashing' 'tearing' and 'thieving' are all words I'm not sure I want my child to embrace just yet. This book has been put away, not to re-emerge until my child is a bit older & can understand that not all dinosaurs are like Barney (not that that's a bad thing!)
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