Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs

This book and the series of books has been a favorite in our house for a few years now. This is my favorite of the series, it explains how Harry becomes friends with his dinosaurs and it is a really sweet story. My son carried around a bucketful of plastic dinosaurs for about a year, and he slept with them and bathes them just like in the book. The hardcover copy makes a great gift too :)

We checked this book at from the library awhile ago and read it about one million times before we had to return it! My 3 1/2 year old son loves Harry! We have read all the books and we just discovered the new TV series based on the books. They o a great job of introducing dinosaurs to small kids in a friendly, non-threatening way, I hope they keep coming!

We have a 4 yr old Sammy too, and he loves this book. We looked for similar dinosaur related titles by the same author, but all we find are the "Harry and the Dinosaurs" series, it seems that the author changed the name of the little boy and also republished the original "Sammy and the Dinosaurs" as "Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs". We tried to read the name of "Harry" as "Sammy" and his sister "Sam" as the original "Meg", but since our 4 yr old can also read, he has pointed out that they spelled Sammy wrong, I guess we'll have to tell him sooner or later, but for now it is quite amusing to hear us stumble through these stories. I wish he'd have left it alone.

This story is really enjoyable. Young readers would love the story though it may appeal more to boys than girls because of the dinosaurs theme. The illustrations are very well done. I definitely recommend this book for young kids.

A young boy discovers some toy dinosaurs; cares for them, learns more about them, and they "come alive" for him. Simple story line, great dinosaur illustrations in color, with accompanying names. Recommended for K through the 2nd grade.