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Title details for How to Tame a Triceratops by Will Dare - Available

How to Tame a Triceratops

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by Will Dare
Mariano Epelbaum
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Welcome to The Lost Plains!

A wild west frontier where dinosaurs never went extinct.

Josh Sanders wants to be the next great dinosaur cowboy! Ropin' raptors and ridin' bucking brontosauruses just like his hero Terrordactyl Bill.

Too bad he's stuck working on his family's Iguanodon ranch, riding his ancient dino, Plodder. The closest Josh has ever been to a T-Rex is reading about them in his Dino Cowboy Handbook.

To prove he has what it takes, Josh is determined to win the annual Settlement Race. But he's gonna need one fast dino to stand a chance. With the help of his friends Sam and Abi, Josh will need to tame a wild Triceratops!

This wildly entertaining new chapter book series for ages 7 and up features exciting illustrations and real dino facts! A great way to get kids reading. And don't miss the next book in the series: How to Rope a Giganotosaurus.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Dino Riders

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 4, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781492636182

    • PDF ebook

      • ISBN: 9781492636199
      • File size: 26777 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.8
    • Lexile® Measure: 740
    • Interest Level: K-3(LG)
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 24, 2017
      Dinosaurs take the place of horses in Dare’s zippy first story in the Dino Riders series, a kind of Wild West/Jurassic mashup. Josh Sanders is an ambitious young dino rider in the land of the Lost Plains, who hopes to enter the Founders’ Day Race, but his gallimimus, Plodder, is old and slow. When Josh acquires a triceratops, however, the puppylike dinosaur isn’t race ready either. Epelbaum’s cinematic, grayscale artwork plays up the rowdiness of the premise of an adventure laced with cowpoke lingo and stuffed with dinosaurs both speedy and slow. Simultaneously available: How to Rope a Gigantosaurus. Ages 7–10.

    • Kirkus

      February 1, 2017
      Young Josh needs to up his ride if he's going to win the Trihorn settlement's 100th-anniversary Founders' Day race and meet his hero, Terrordactyl Bill.Set on the Lost Plains, where ranchers tend to herds of iguanodons, and horses (if there were any) would be easy pickings for the local predators, this series kickoff pits a brash lad and sidekick and schoolmates Sam and Abi against not only the requisite bully, but such fiercer adversaries as attacking pterodactyls. Josh's first challenge after eagerly entering the race is finding a faster, nimbler steed than his steady but old gallimimus, Plodder. Along comes Charge--an aptly named, if not-quite-fully-trained triceratops with speed, brains, and, it turns out, a streak of loyalty that saves Josh's bacon both here and in a simultaneously publishing sequel, How To Rope a Giganotosaurus, which prominently features T. Rex's much larger cousin. Dare adds a map, as well as spot illustrations of rural Western types (Josh and Abi are white, Sam has dark skin and tightly curled hair) astride toothy, brightly patterned dinos. In both adventures Josh weathers regular encounters with dinosaur dung, snot, and gas as well as threats to life and limb to show up the aforementioned bully and emerge a hero. Adventures and misadventures, Old West style--but with dinos. (Fantasy. 8-10)

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Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • PDF ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.8
  • Lexile® Measure:740
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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