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|title=Jump into Dino World!: Storybook (Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs)
|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=For Sharing
|buy=No
|borrow=Yes
|pages=24
|publisher=Puffin Books
As a bedtime story the book reads well, with text which flows and is neatly linked to the colourful illustrations. There's a little bit of magic as Dino World is found in a relatively small blue bucket and even a little bit of a twist in the tail when it seems that Nan might not be too old to have been enjoying Dino World herself. It's a warm, good-hearted story for the two-to-five age group, but unless the child is particularly into either the Harry stories or Dinosaurs I doubt that it will stay on the 'favourites' shelf.
My main reservation about this book is that it is ''not'' the [[Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs|book]] written by Ian Whybrow and illustrated by Adrian Reynolds, but is 'based on' the original book, which I think would be a far better buy. There's a lot more to the story - including the finding of the dinosaurs - and we meet Harry's sister too. There's even some sibling squabbling and the book has a more natural feel to it.
My thanks to the publishers for sending this book to The Bookbag.
If you have a child who is interested in dinosaurs we can recommend Julia Donaldson's beautifully written and illustrated [[Tyrannosaurus Drip]] or [[How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?]] by Jane Yolen.
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