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

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.

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.

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.

Little boys are constantly pressured to love super heroes. But young boys (and girls) also love dinosaurs and are fascinated by them. This book offers a very compelling story about a boy who loves his dinosaurs more than videos on TV. It is both instructive (all the names are in the front and some are listed)and engrossing.

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!

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 love the story! My grandkids really enjoy reading it again and again. Good way to learn some of the common dinosaurs and their names.

As my 4-year-old grandson earnestly explained to me, "Most dinosaur books tell you the names of the dinosaurs and what they ate and all that stuff. After a while, it's boring. But this is a story"! He loves this book, especially at bedtime. It's British, so a few terms will be unusual (Gran rather than Grammy or Nana), but the plot is pure gold: love, loss, and reunion.

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.

My 6 year old loves those short stories. We like the fact that the book is divided into smaller chunks. All the stores are lovely. Easy to read for a year 2 student

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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 ....