Peter's not sure how to take it when his father gets an assignment from National Geographic: covering the last performance of the last dinosaur circus in North America. It's some decades after Professor Challenger et al. came back from the lost world, launching the "Dinosaur Rush," and dinosaurs are kind of passe.
What Anthony didn't tell Peter is that there's more to the assignment than watching performing animals: the dinosaurs remaining in Otto Gluck's circus are to be returned to Venezuela, and Anthony and Peter will be going along on the expedition to document the event. Along the way, they encounter dangers from humans and wild creatures alike, and Peter comes to terms with his parents' divorce and where he is and wants to be in the world.
DINOSAUR SUMMER offers a likeable protagonist and a great premise, with a creative admixture of fictional and nonfictional dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures.
Oh, and did I mention, the cover and interior illustrations are by Tony DiTerlizzi?
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Growing up as a teenager my 4 Favorite Dinosaur Books would be The Lost World (Doyle), The Land That Time Forgot, Jurassic Park, and The Lost World (Crichton). When i found out Dinosaur Summer was a sequel to Conan Doyle's The Lost World, i read this book. After finishing reading Dinosaur Summer, i loved it. Now it's part of my 5 Favorite Dinosaur Books list. I want to thank Greg Bear for writing Dinosaur Summer. What I like about this book is there are different charecters, this sequel picks up where The Lost World left off, and the idea of Maple White Land having different dinosaurs. Having Ray Harryhausen and Willis O'Brien being part of this adventure and going back to Maple White Land is something I loved. Greg Bear letting me know that The Lost World took place in 1912. When I read The Lost World (Doyle) there's no mention of when the book took place. Finally the Death Eagle. The Death Eagle is my favorite dinosaur in Dinosaur Summer. Greg Bear imagines in his version of Maple White Land that evolution didnt stop since 1912. Overall, excellent sequel to Conan Doyle's The Lost World. With Dinosaur movies coming out since Jurassic World, I hope some director would turn this book into a movie.
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