Dino-Mike and the T. Rex Attack (Dino-Mike! Series #1)

by Franco Aureliani, Franco Aureliani (Illustrator)

Overview

Dino-Mike is on the trail of a T. rex in this chapter book adventure! The son of a famous paleontologist, young Michael Evans travels the world with his dino-huntin' dad. As dad digs dino bones, Mike does some exploring on his own and winds up finding a live T. rex! After tracking what couldn't possibly be real, Mike meets a mysterious kid that seems to know why and how the real dinosaur got here. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on nearly every page, Dino-Mike chapter books are perfect for beginning readers. Written and illustrated by the Eisner-Award winning creator of Tiny Titans, Franco!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781434296313
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Series:	Dino-Mike! Series , #1
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	656,155
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	600L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Eisner award-winning writer and artist Franco Aureliani has been drawing comics since he could hold a crayon. Currently residing in upstate New York with his wife, Ivette and son, Nicolas, he spends most of his days in his Batcave-like studio where he works on comics projects. In 1995, Franco founded Blindwolf Studios, an independent art studio where he and fellow creators can create children’s comics. Franco is the creator, artist and writer of Weirdsville, L’il Creeps, and Eagle All Star, as well as the co-creator and writer of Patrick the Wolf Boy. Franco recently finished work on Superman Family Adventures, and is now co-writing the new series The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires. When he’s not writing and drawing, Franco also teaches high school art.

Eisner award-winning writer and artist Franco Aureliani has been drawing comics since he could hold a crayon. Currently residing in upstate New York with his wife, Ivette and son, Nicolas, he spends most of his days in his Batcave-like studio where he works on comics projects. In 1995, Franco founded Blindwolf Studios, an independent art studio where he and fellow creators can create children’s comics. Franco is the creator, artist and writer of Weirdsville, L’il Creeps, and Eagle All Star, as well as the co-creator and writer of Patrick the Wolf Boy. Franco recently finished work on Superman Family Adventures, and is now co-writing the new series The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires. When he’s not writing and drawing, Franco also teaches high school art.

Table of Contents

Roar! — T. rex! — Run! — Mystery girl — Dino dinner — Hot-doggin! — Jurassic Jeff — Big problems — Trouble — Dino eggs!

Interviews

Easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page. Written and illustrated by the Eisner Award-winning creator of DC Comics' Tiny Titans. Highly marketable and licensable character and concept. Broad appeal to boy demographic, including dinosaur lovers, humor fans, and much more!

Editorial Reviews

01/19/2015
In this first book in the Dino-Mike series, Mike Evans joins his paleontologist father on a dig in Montana, where the dinosaur-obsessed boy has a run-in with a living tyrannosaur. Along with a new friend named Shannon (and her trove of futuristic technology), Mike tries to corral the wayward dinosaur while fending off a mysterious nemesis, Jurassic Jeff, who is trying to prevent dinosaurs from going extinct “by introducing them into different time periods,” as Shannon explains. Aureliani’s b&w illustrations bring a fittingly cartoony vibe to the madcap action. While the writing tends toward over-explanation (“Oh no. That’s what you wanted. You wanted me to follow you, so I wouldn’t follow her. You tricked me into looking for you so I would waste time”), dinosaur fans should still be swept up in the fun. Ages 6–8. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

Young readers will enjoy the fast-paced adventures and will overlook the unbelievable actions. Large font, short paragraphs, cartoon drawings, and simple vocabulary make this series a good selection for readers moving into the beginning novel.

School Library Connection

Michael travels with his paleontologist dad. On this particular trip, Mike wanders off and meets a girl who is trying to trap a REAL dinosaur to send it back in time from where it came. I think kids will enjoy this first book in a new dinosaur adventure series. It’s a simple adventure story with good kid-appeal.

Imagination Soup

2014-12-06
The appearance of a live T. Rex near a fossil dig kicks off a wild round of dino-antics in this series kickoff from an Eisner Award-winning comics writer.Hardly has young Mike donned his high-tech, solar-powered hoodie—a present from his paleontologist dad—than he's running into Shannon, a mysterious girl wielding awesome futuristic devices, and running in panic from a hungry T. Rex he decides, in a less frantic moment, to name Sam. Secretive about her origins, Shannon enlists Mike, whom she dubs "Dino-Mike" (she herself goes by the less punchy moniker "Triceratops Shannon"), to help her steal a hot dog truck and lure the monster into a force field cage so that it can be sent back to the Cretaceous. Though ultimately successful, the mission is not only complicated by continuing interference from rascally dinosaur collector Jurassic Jeff, but capped, in a closing stunner, with unmistakable evidence that "Sam" was actually "Samantha." Franco strews his lickety-split escapade with cartoons featuring wide-eyed figures viewed, often, from dramatic angles, leaves loose ends aplenty for sequels, and tacks on a dino-glossary and a set of T. Rex facts at the end. Like Sam with those hot dogs, readers eager to snap up any dino-story will make quick work of this tongue-in-cheek romp. (Science fiction. 8-10)

Kirkus Reviews