Review: 12 Short Stories About a Dinosaur Who Could Just be a Regular Kid, He's Just Drawn as a Dinosaur
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2012
A fairly lengthy text wise overall collection of twelve short stories that will each take two or three minutes to read.  You probably want to read them two or three a time at most, I tried reading them all and the kids eventually got bored of Max, but if you read say a couple each night, mixed in with other books I think that would work better.  The main character and very occasionally other characters are dinosaurs, but they don't really follow the rules or limitations such as short pretty useless arms for example of being a dinosaur.  Max could pretty much just be a human, and since this isn't a picture book, there's no reminder to kids that he is a dinosaur as you're telling the story.  There is a picture before each story begins, the covers I guess if this was divided up and sold separately. I think these stories would definitely have benefited by actually being picture book with illustrations showing kids what was happening in each scene.Stories range from Max wishing it was always night because he wants to wish upon a star and realising snowflakes are like stars, to Max getting lost, to forming a Christmas choir and writing Christmas songs.  The stories vary in quality but overall it's a decent read.