Review: Great kid's adventure book, but...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2012
Loved the storytelling. It was thrilling, a great page-turner that my inner child adored. Illustrations are wonderful. As an adult, I thought the Prologue was great and the Who is Who cast of characters was right on. Really immersed myself easily into the story, anxiously awaiting the next words, then felt totally gypped at the ending. Great foreplay without a climax. It was neither a cliff hanger or something that left me satisfied.I kept jumping to the front of the book to see if I missed some sort of explanation that this book was the first adventure to "dinosaur-land" when the kids just put their toe in the water and some warning that I would be left dangling. I read "through the power of magic, the three (children) find the bravery they need to find their grandparents and bring them back home." But the story ended without the children even saying "hello" to the grandparents let alone bringing them home and all I could find were other projected books in other areas of adventure. Something needs to be filled in somewhere, like a "tune in tomorrow when" the kids actually make real contact with grandma and grandpa. Or do the children just keep running off on unfinished adventures... I wouldn't care if this wasn't such a great book.