Dino-Mike and the Jurassic Portal by Franco Aureliani

Dino-Mike #4

by Franco

Dino-Mike finds a portal to the Jurassic period in this chapter book adventure! Young Michael Evans 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!

Paperback

First published February 1, 2015

About the author

Franco Aureliani, known professionally as Franco, is an American comic book writer/artist, best known for writing the DC Comics series Tiny Titans, for which he won two Eisner Awards in 2009 and 2011. Tiny Titans also won a Harvey award in 2011. He was also nominated for another Harvey in 2013 for another project from DC Comics, Superman Family Adventures. He and longtime writing partner and friend, Art Baltazar, won their third Eisner in 2014 for the Dark Horse Comics children's series Itty Bitty Hellboy. He also teaches art at Carmel High School.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read primarily with my 5 year old (though his big brother joined us for the last few chapters). He's really enjoying this series. This one took a few good twists and turns - and while the ending was less than plausible, that's kind of par for the course in a book about kids traveling back in time to stop evil opposition from bringing dinosaurs forward in time to repopulate the earth.

I do really enjoy the characters and I like that the main secondary character is a strong intelligent girl. I have been informed by my son that I am to track down the next book in this series. :-)

[Phyllis M. Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've got to get MORE of these!

[Katie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read with my 7 year old. He enjoyed it.

[Daria · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not impressed at all. Could have some interest with young sci fic fans though