Chris McGowan, a curator at the Royal Ontario Museum, has come up with the ideal hands-on science project. All you need is this book, three young chickens, a few household items, and some time to make your own scale model of an apatosaurus skeleton. And it neatly dovetails with current scientific theories that birds are the living descendents of dinosaurs.
Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a memorable journey.
Like a good science teacher, he answers the questions that most people would never bother to ask. When Lilly's grandmother gives her movie-star sunglasses, three shiny quarters and a purple plastic purse that plays a tune when opened, Lilly can't wait to talk about them at show and tell. Her feelings for Mr. Slinger swing from love to hate and back again. Henkes draws and describes with an emotional intensity parents and children will love. The book has liveliness and felicity, tenderness and unexpectedness, grace and humor and praise of life, and the good backbone of succinctness that only the most highly imaginative stories seem to grow.