My sons are both very good readers. Our oldest son cannot be found without a book in his backpack for pleasure reading. He loves to read fantasy or Sci-Fi books but I remember the days when his favorite book was Danny and the Dinosaur. He would read it over and over again. He loved the book so much that I am surprised the binding didn't come undone. The book we have is still in great shape. I have often wondered if the Clifford the Big Red Dog series wasn’t inspired by this series.

Danny and the Dinosaur is written and illustrated by Syd Hoff. The story starts off with a young boy entering a museum. He first sees Indians, bears and Eskimo's. Then he sees guns, swords and...DINOSAURS. This is where the story comes to life, literally. One of the dinosaurs speaks to Danny, telling him that he would like to play. Danny and the dinosaur leave the museum and go on an adventure. Along the way they see a policeman, a dog, boats, and buildings. They helped young people and old people, ladies and gents. They see lions, elephants, giraffes and hippos. They have the most wonderful day together.

Each one of the 64 pages is illustrated very simply and the pages all look as if they have been colored in as a child would color in a coloring book. The drawings are simple yet detailed enough for the storyline to be understood by a child unable to read. Each one of the pages has just a few lines with the one page in the book that does not have an illustration on it containing a total of 50 words. The words are very simple and a beginner reader should not have any problems sounding out any words that are unfamiliar to them.

My oldest son loved the book as I mentioned earlier but both of my sons enjoyed it. I think when our youngest son was first understanding books he preferred books that had brightly colored illustrations and that is probably one of the reasons that this did not appeal to him as much as his brother.

The children that come to our house still enjoy Danny and the Dinosaur and I will keep it in our collection forever. My nephew enjoys the books and so do our younger nieces. If you haven’t figured out by reading my other reviews, we have a whole lot of nieces that are under the age of five but only two nephews that are that young. I would say that children nowadays could probably be reading this easily by the end of their final year in preschool. I may be wrong but kids seem to be learning things much younger then we did. All in all this is a great story for kids and adults alike.

Thanks for reading and rating.