num_pages: 40
description: All he wants is a puppy but he gets a triceratops instead! When a boy asks his mother for a pet she says no. Then the boy finds a giant dinosaur egg at his neighbor's yard sale. The neighbor Mr. Jerry claims the dinosaur egg is real. That night a baby triceratops hatches and leads the boy on a dinosaur adventure. Do something says Mom when her house becomes surrounded by a prehistoric herd. Soon the boy makes the dinosaurs disappear. And Mom rewards him with a puppy! Every child will identify with the longing for a pet and the tender parent-child relationship and at the same time revel in rollicking dinosaur fun!
language: English
title: Too Many Dinosaurs
publisher: Holiday House