Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs (Harry and the Dinosaurs)

I really love this story! It's so sweet and creative. I love that each page the dinosaurs grow bigger and bigger (reminds me of Where the Wild Things Are-- each page of that story grows bigger and bigger too). I love that this boy loves his dinosaurs. I love that he defends himself against his annoying older sister (there are some criticisms that the word "stupid" is used, which perplexes me as "stupid" is not a bad word unless you are calling a PERSON stupid). I just love reading this to my son who in turn loves hearing it since he loves dinosaurs. Did I use the word "love" enough?

I love the book. Very cute, very realistic to real world kids with their toys, feelings and imagination. I would totally recommend purchasing the book. Definitely a good age range 2-4.

This first book of Harry and the Bucket full of dinosaurs was really cute. He found a box of dinosaurs in the attic. He cleaned them and repaired them. He was moved to research the names of each dinosaur. He took very good care of them and they went everywhere with him. One day on an exciting trip with his grandma on a train he forgot them and they were left behind on the train. His gran bought him a video to take their place. But that couldn't replace them. He is inconsolable. Finally Gran takes him to the train station to check the lost and found. Harry has to prove they are his by naming them, which he does. His dinosaurs are happy to see him and they whisper to him "You are definitely our Harry, definitely!" We got two more of the series but they didn't have the same charm. It could be they are for younger kids. My boy is 4. They were ok but never his favorites.

Every child has one thing that they fall in love with. My little ponies. Barbies. G I Joes. For mine it's Harry and his Bucket Full of Dinosaurs. I have handmade her a "Patsy" and "Steggy" and "Rex", and she watches the episodes and reads the books over and over. They are perfect for her age (3), address appropriate issues, and definitely keep her bringing books over to me asking to read.

We bought this book for our young daughters (they were approximately a year and a half old at the time) after one of them expressed an interest in dinosaurs. We looked hard for a book that was both informative about dinosaurs, but not too scary. Many dinosaur books for kids have tons of information, but also less stylized pictures. For a very young child, we thought that more realistic pictures might be a turn off, and we wanted more of a story than merely a compendium of facts. This book hits a home run in both departments! The entire story is very cute, but I was pleased to find a subtly deeper message than the main dinosaur story. In the story, Harry's sister spends nearly all her time 'on camera' watching TV, while Harry gets to have some rather large imagination fueled adventures. I really like the suggestion that a bucketful of dinosaurs (or anything really) can be way more fun than sitting in front of the TV. The anthropomorphized pictures of the dinosaurs are good enough to identify them easily. The Tyrannosaurus looks like you expect him to, albeit cartoon-y, as do the others but our kids were able to repeatedly point them out to us, quickly caught on to their names and were even able to identify more 'realistic' pictures of many of the dinosaurs after only seeing them in this book. I'd call that a success. Besides the dinosaur pictures, the rest of the book is full of beautiful illustrations. Sadly, as another reviewer comments on, they do use the word stupid once in the book. It is an unfortunate word choice, but easily replaced with silly when we get to that page. I may have to take more drastic measures to remove the word when my girls are old enough to read this on their own though. The choice of a single word isn't enough to deter me from recommending this book, especially since it does so many other things right. A little bit of circumvention makes this an all-star in our collection. It will not disappoint!

My five-year-old grandson loves this book. He has many dinosaurs and carries them around wherever he goes so this story was definitely one he loved. I highly recommend this book. It's very colorful and the pages are made of strong material so it won't bend and curl like some other books. He also carries this book around with him along with his dinosaurs.

We love this book. My son who is now 15 still has fond memories of this book and we have purchased it again for some of his young cousins who love dinosaurs. I highly recommend it for any dinosaur loving child.

This book is a favorite for me and my just turned 3yr old son who from the pictures on each page tells me the story now! The inside cover also has pictures and names of all the dinosaurs which we have fun with. It is big and bendy and the pages turn fairly easy for little hands but it seems durable too.

Great read

A must have story in any dinosaur fan's bookcase. My daughter had this when she was very small and continues to enjoy it now that she is a 6yo budding paleontologist! It's simple, but it's really lovely.

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Zuerst einmal: Das ist ein sehr liebevoll, bunt gestaltetes Kinderbuch mit 5 Geschichten über Harry. Nicht in jeder spielen die Dinosaurier eine Rolle. Das wirkte sich bei uns daraufhin aus, dass eine Geschichte nicht sehr gerne gelesen wurde. 2 andere hingegen sind sehr beliebt und zwar, als Harry ein Mädchen besucht und sie nach ein paar Anlaufschwierigkeiten zusammen im Garten spielen, und auch diese ohne die Dinosaurier, als Harry für seine kranke Oma Roboter zum Aufpassen bastelt. Die Geschichten haben eine gute Länge, relativ wenig Text auf einer Seite und sind immer nach dem gleichen Schema aufgebaut. So muss der Junge grundsätzlich einmal zum Abkühlen auf sein Zimmer, weil er seiner Schwester z.B. die Milchschale über den Kopf gekippt oder einen Dino nach ihr geworfen hat. Das sorgt bei uns für große Erheiterung. Das Format ist in etwas DIN A 4 und das Buch beinhaltet etwas festere Seiten (kein Karton), die nicht so leicht einreißen. Als Vorleser musste ich kurz vorher die Namen der Dinos üben :-)

This is in the series with Harry and the dinosaurs go to school which I’ve reviewed separately. Also excellent and, for my son, great to have two books to read at bedtime rather than just the one again and again and again ....