Dino-Mike and the Jurassic Portal (Dino-Mike! Series #4)

by Franco Aureliani, Franco (Illustrator)

Overview

Dino-Mike finds a portal to the Jurassic period in this chapter book adventure! Young Michael Evens and a new friend need to return real dinosaurs to their own time period. Can Dino-Mike and his friend survive this blast to the past? On their journey they will encounter a stegosaurus, a brachiosaurus, and the biggest, baddest T. rex that Mike has ever seen! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on nearly every page, Dino-Mike chapter books are perfect for beginning readers. Written and illustrated by the Eisner-Award winning creator of Tiny Titans, Franco!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496524584
Publisher:	Capstone Press
Publication date:	08/01/2015
Series:	Dino-Mike! Series , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	17 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Eisner award-winning writer and artist Franco Aureliani has been drawing comics since he could hold a crayon. Currently residing in upstate New York with his wife, Ivette and son, Nicolas, he spends most of his days in his Batcave-like studio where he works on comics projects. In 1995, Franco founded Blindwolf Studios, an independent art studio where he and fellow creators can create children’s comics. Franco is the creator, artist and writer of Weirdsville, L’il Creeps, and Eagle All Star, as well as the co-creator and writer of Patrick the Wolf Boy. Franco recently finished work on Superman Family Adventures, and is now co-writing the new series The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires. When he’s not writing and drawing, Franco also teaches high school art.

Editorial Reviews

The hero of this book is Mike Evans, who often accompanies his famous paleontologist father on geological digs. Mike’s adventures take him all over the world from England to China and more. He also has some encounters with real life dinosaurs! Mike’s sidekick Shannon also has a scientist for a father. Shannon’s dad, Dr. Broomie, has invented some pretty cool gadgets that come in handy in perilous adventures with dinosaurs. Shannon’s big brother Jeff has a not-so-nice hidden agenda to overpopulate the world with fierce dinosaurs. Mike travels back in time with Jeff’s journal to hinder Jeff’s evil plot. Mike and Shannon learn that it takes more than scientific equipment to outsmart Jeff. They learn to use their gut instincts and savvy to figure out solutions to keep the world safe. The humorous illustrations and the high action, fast moving pace of this book will appeal to reluctant readers. Reviewer: Trudy Shiroma Koeffler; Ages 6 to 8.

Children's Literature - Trudy Shiroma Koeffler