Dino-Mike and the Jurassic Portal

Dino-Mike #4

by Franco (contributor)

Mike Evans goes through the time portal to find his friend Shannon and her troublesome brother Jeff, but he soon finds they all have bigger problems--a robot who wants to repopulate the Earth with dinosaurs and a group of Tyrannosaurus rex babies who remember Mike from New York.

128 pages, 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