Dino-Mike and the Dinosaur Cove

Dino-Mike #6

by Franco

Mike Evans and his best friend, Shannon, pursue the dangerous Mr. Bones to Australia, where he has reanimated an Allosaurus and may be seeking more complete dinosaur skeletons to bring to life--but they discover that actually he and his sister have a more profitable scheme in mind.

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 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

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining. We wound up taking a break midway through as my 5 year old got distracted by other things. Then I reminded him that we'd need to finish it before it was due back at the library - and returning it unfinished was apparently unacceptable. (We typically read 1 or 2 chapters per night at bedtime. He insists on reading all of the names himself while I read the rest - which makes for a bit of a jumpy reading experience, but is good for him. I try to sneak in the occasional connecting word to get him closer to reading whole sentences.)

In this one, Mike and Shannon are off to Australia along with the evil Mr. Bones and Mr. Bones' surprise partner. As usual, adventures ensue.

I appreciate the educational tidbits that the author sprinkles in (e.g. "what is opal?"). The typesetting still needs a little work - though there weren't quite as many errors as in one of the earlier books in the series.