Dino-Mike and the Living Fossils

Dino-Mike #5

by Franco

What seems to Mike Evans like a boring dinosaur dig in China turns suddenly dangerous when he finds evidence of a live dinosaur in the neighborhood--and he and his friend Shannon run into a villain in a skull mask called Mr. Bones who is controlling both a feathered dino, and a fierce carnivore.

128 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2016

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

[Marjorie · Rating 1 out of 5]

The story is subpar even/especially for a children's book and it reinforces bullshit gender norms. But the absolute worst, most unforgivable, part is that there were MANY spelling and grammar issues in this 120 page book. Those are frustrating in adult literature, but become showstoppers in a book designed for a child to be reading solo. Things like missing words, duplicated words, "one" instead of "on." ... I wasn't even looking for these mistakes and they kept jumping out at me. Shame on the author and publisher for clearly not proofreading even once. Obviously money is more important than substance and quality here. Don't give this book to your kids.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story is good - and what you'd expect for this series which my 5 year old loves. But there are soooo many copy edits that I was regularly having to add or remove extra words to make the sentences make sense. I didn't have to do that for the other books in the series. Hopefully, that'll get fixed if there's ever a reprint.

[Lauren Dostal · Rating 1 out of 5]

Honestly, this author/publisher should be ashamed of themselves for putting out such a typo-filled early reader chapter book. It was hard enough for *me* to read aloud, let alone my son, who is still learning to read fluently, to stumble over all the error filled text.

[Brooke Shackelford · Rating 3 out of 5]

My boys like the Dino-Mike stories but this one could have used some better editing. There were so many mistakes I was constantly stopping to re-read sentences because they had extra words or words omitted. I’ve never seen so many mistakes in a book before.

[Nell Ewens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty cool rino adventure story. Not sure why Mike is the only one with a cool hoodie?