The Three Triceratops Tuff
With Audio Recording
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
This clever retelling of a tried-and-true tale has a paleontological twist!
Three Triceratops brothers by the name of Tuff are on a mission to find some grub. There’s just one thing standing in their way: a Tyrannosaurus Rex who has a very different idea of what’s for dinner! The Tuff brothers must find a way to outsmart this bossy beast, for their very lives—and a bounty of delicious greens—hang in the balance.
This vividly illustrated story transplants the classic tale of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” into the Cretaceous period, where dino fans of all ages will enjoy seeing their favorite subjects use their smarts to battle it out for dinner.
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Shaskan doesn't update the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff so much as send it into the past, "sixty-eight million years ago," to be exact. Food is scarce for Stanley, Rufus, and Bob Tuff, but they spy some lush vegetation on the other side of a valley. The only problem: "At the bottom of the valley stood a... tyrannosaurus rex!" Shaskan draws the dino midroar, an effect he visualizes using a giant red starburst that blasts across the spread (even the tiny mosquito flying by looks scared). As in the original, each triceratops tricks the T. rex into letting him pass, with the promise that a larger, tastier morsel will be coming along. Shaskan retains the chunky, weathered style of his debut, A Dog Is a Dog, which is well suited to this story's punchy text and colossal personalities. The climactic showdown, however, is surprisingly static; Bob Tuff takes out his opponent with a "mighty blow" from his tail, but there's no real sense of the movement behind the action that sends the T. rex hurtling into the distance. Ages 3 7.
