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Dinosaur Summer
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Dinosaur Summer
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This book is part of The Lost Book project. The Lost Book is an animated web series which you can help write. It follows the adventures of investigative journalist, and BookCrosser, Aileen Adler and her dog Watson as they try to solve the crime of a stolen book.We came across Dinosaur Summer when the lovely TomHl mentioned it in his journal entry for The Lost World. In this book, Greg Bear takes as his starting point the idea that Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is fact, not fiction.* He sets his story thirty-five years later to explore the implications of finding living dinosaurs. So, what did humankind do when faced with a plateau containing a huge diversity of unknown lifeforms? That's right: captured them and put them into circuses. And then got bored when the dinosaurs died, and upset when they ate the audience. This gives Bear the set-up for a boys-own romp that's true to the spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure story. An expedition goes back to the "Lost World" to return the last circus dinosaurs - facing danger, and learning about themselves and each other. Amusingly, the expedition includes camera operators Willis O'Brian (OBie) and Ray Harryhausen, who've been tasked with filming the release. OBie and Harryhausen are real people - in our world, OBie created the pioneering stop-motion dinosaurs in the 1925 film of The Lost World. Harryhausen was inspired by OBie's work on King Kong (1933) and created amazing stop-motion animation for films such as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts and One Million Years BC. He's much-loved by animators around the globe. But, in a world where real dinosaurs exist, Harryhausen and OBie mourn that "dinosaurs spoiled the public for any of our imaginary monsters". This book is the illustrated edition, and contains lovely sketches by Tony DiTerlizzi of Spiderwick Chronicles fame (another person inspired by a film and a model-making genius - this time Jim Henson and The Dark Crystal). * I have a certain extra sympathy for this, as it's exactly what we're doing over at The Lost Book... although we've moved things on a few generations. The "Lost Book" - a book that's been stolen - is the journal of Professor Challenger's great great granddaughter Sally's expedition to the "Lost World". The project includes two story threads: an animated web series following journalist Aileen Adler’s (slightly blundering) efforts to recover the book; and an attempt to write the missing book in 100-word instalments. Both stories are written entirely by the public – anyone who visits the website can take part. |
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Released 3 yrs ago (6/23/2009 UTC) at By Post, a postal release -- Controlled Releases CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 3 yrs ago (9/15/2009 UTC) at Alexandria, Virginia USA CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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I enjoyed this 1998 tribute sequel to Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. In this alternate world, the events of The Lost World are taken as true, and by 1949, the public has grown tired of the display of dinosaurs, and the circus acts that display them are going out of business. Young Peter Belzoni joins his down-and-out photographer Dad on a movie expedition to return the last of the circus dinosaurs to their native El Grande tepui in South America. As a young man growing up, Peter is both likable and believable, although some of the movie people are caricatures. The pen illustrations by Tony DiTerlizzi add a lot. I think of this as a YA novel, and would not hesitate to recommend it to an adolescent looking for something more than can be found in all the popular dinosaur movies.I read the book during a recent trip, and here I've uploaded a photo of me reading it in the airport terminal at Logan International Airport in Boston. It was such a gripping story that I could not bear to lower it even for a moment! |
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Released 3 yrs ago (9/28/2009 UTC) at -- Mail or by hand-ring, RABCK, meetings, Wisconsin USA CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 3 yrs ago (10/12/2009 UTC) at A Controlled Release, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 3 yrs ago (11/14/2009 UTC) at Manchester Museum in Manchester, Greater Manchester United Kingdom WILD RELEASE NOTES:
WILD RELEASE NOTES:  This book will be released near the smiling skeleton of Stan, the dinosaur which lives at the museum. This book is being released as part of the Bookcrossing Monopoly game. Week five and it was release anybook you like anywhere. |
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