Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo

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Summary: Wacky Adventure
Review: ...Dinosaur Bob is one of those children's books you just read over and over to your kids. It is funny from start to finish, with Bob the Dino and his family the Lazardos. My boys loved it as kids and will pass it down to theirs.

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Summary: One of our family favorites.
Review: Both story and illustrations are absolutely first-rate. My children had borrowed the original edition from the library several times so when I found this edition I bought it immediately. It's been a family favorite for several years now. Buy it, and you too can go through your days humming "The Ballad of Dinosaur Bob."

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Summary: Dinosaur Bob
Review: I can't say enough good about WIlliam Joyce. He's one of my two or three favorite illustraters. His drawings are so detailed that you can almost see individual leaves in his plants and bushes. Besides, his unbelievable technical ability, he also is extremely inventive. On one page in this book, the dinosaur and his friends aren't shown except in their shadows and like in all his books, the colors seem almost too bright to be real.

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Summary: Dinosaur Bob
Review: I can't say enough good about WIlliam Joyce. He's one of my two or three favorite illustraters. His drawings are so detailed that you can almost see individual leaves in his plants and bushes. Besides, his unbelievable technical ability, he also is extremely inventive. On one page in this book, the dinosaur and his friends aren't shown except in their shadows and like in all his books, the colors seem almost too bright to be real.

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Summary: Can't Beat Bob
Review: My 8 and 10 year old sons read "Bob" as part of a review of children's illustrators. We were so taken with the saga of Bob that our family proceeded to read every other book by William Joyce. (Bob is still our favorite). As a matter of fact when my son began learning to play the trumpet one of the first things he learned was Auld Lang Syne because that's the same tune used to sing the Dinosaur Bob song. A wonderful warm story about family, taking chances and doing what's right.

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Summary: A wonderful story of a really big family pet
Review: The Lazardos are not your typical family. So it follows that they require no typical pet. Enter Bob. They find him on safari in Africa and decide that he needs a good home. I love this story of a baseball playing dinosaur and the free-spirited family who take him in. By the writer of George Shrinks. The families are very similar in spirit. Such a great book!

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Summary: 10 stars for this book!
Review: The story's great, the illustrations are wonderful. Adults will enjoy this as much or more than kids.

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Summary: We are decorating our home in Dinosaur Bob
Review: We love this story and read it often. We brought it to our designer, and are working with the colors and style. We call our living room the "dinosaur Bob" room. Bravo!

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Summary: larger than life fun
Review: William Joyce's exuberant illustrations recall adventure movies of the 1930's, the illustrations of Bruce McCall, and a sort of pre-war sense of possibility that descends directly from the Hudson River school's landscapes. Dinosaur Bob is a natural pet for the impossibly rich yet unspoiled Lazardo family; he's as big as their collective imagination. Arrested for chasing (and picking up) cars), Bob faces deportation back to Afica, only to escape with the Lazardos and return to the town of Pimlico Hills and lead its woeful baseball team to their first victory ever. Don't ask me to explain; just read to your children and then all join in singing the "Ballad of Dinosaur Bob" at the end. This is my four-year-old daughter's favorite book.