We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (book)

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is a 1987 children's book drawn and written by Hudson Talbott,^[1] and published by Crown.

A Tyrannosaurus Rex named Rex, the main character and narrator of his story. Other dinosaurs included in this book are a Stegosaurus, a Triceratops, a Saurolophus, a Pteranodon, an Apatosaurus, and a Dryosaurus.

This book was later adapted into an animated movie of the same name in 1993, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures. The sequel book was later published, Going Hollywood! A Dinosaur's Dream and Your Pet Dinosaur: An Owner's Manual.

Plot[]

One day in the Cretaceous Period as the Tyrannosaurus is about to devour the small dinosaur he has captured, the flying saucer piloted by an alien named Vorb arrives. He recruits him and several other dinosaurs (an Apatosaurus, Triceratops, Saurolophus, Stegosaurus, Dryosaurus and Pteranodon) he has found for a trial of a special "vitamin" he has developed which, upon feeding it to the dinosaurs, causes them to become sentient.

Vorb takes them aboard his saucer, and they travel to the present, dropping them off in New York City, which at that moment is celebrating the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The dinosaurs pretend to be inflatable balloons to sneak along with the parade, but Rex mistakes one of the dinosaur balloons to be his Allosaurus friend as Worgul.

The ruse is broken as a result of him accidentally popping "Worgul" and the dinosaurs flee as the crowd panics in sight of them. The police come to capture the dinosaurs soon after, but the helpful curator of the Museum of Natural History, Dr. Bleeb takes the dinosaurs in and hides them from the cops by having them pretend to be life-size model dinosaurs. This satisfies the police, who leave to search for the dinosaurs elsewhere, and the curator lets them stay for the night.

She reads them a bedtime story about a trilobite who wanted to walk on land, while the dinosaurs watch out the window, unsure about their future, except for Rex; watching the city and nightsky.

Dinosaurs[]

The following prehistoric creatures were featured in the book.

Gallery[]

References[]

↑ Illustrating Camelot p. 209 Boydell & Brewer Ltd (2008). ISBN 978-1-84384-183-8

[1] Illustrating Camelot p. 209 Boydell & Brewer Ltd (2008). ISBN 978-1-84384-183-8

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