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Tyrannosaurus Drip - Julia Donaldson

Description: ISBN 1405090006 / Author: Julia Donaldson / Genre: Junior Books

Newest Review: ... Drip is a hilarious and very satisfactory dinosaur-based take on the ugly duckling story. A plant-eating Duckbilled Dinosaur ... more

... egg finds its way into the nest of the terrifying, stupid bullies that are T-Rexes. When he hatches, he can't bring himself to sing the bloodthirsty battle anthem of the T's nor eat any meat - in fact, he's so feeble by T's' standards that his two sisters name him Drip. I have a slightly ambivalent attitude to the Ugly Duckling archetype, as it can be read in two ways: one is to do with finding and following, one's "true identity", against the social (including family) pressure to conform. Drip doe...more

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Tyrannosaurus Drip - Julia Donaldson: Jurassic Ugly Duckling (616 words)
by - written on 18/07/09 (Very useful, 54 readings)
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The career that dinosaurs made in popular culture never ceases to astonish me: from Jurassic Park to Dintopia to Walking with Dinosaurs, but particularly in countless books, cartoons, feature length films, toys and games for pre-school aged and bit older children. I have to confess that the dino-mania has never particularly got hold of me (although I did, actually, have a plum-coloured small one living behind a hidden gate on the way to my kindergarten). I suspect the appeal must have something to do with the fact that dinosaurs are semiotically "anomalous" creatures: both real (with their reality confirmed by science) and un-real (has anybody ever seen one?), ... Read the complete review