![]() ![]() ![]() What six-year-old wouldn't leap at the chance to have a live dinosaur participate in his birthday bash? ![]() Since it's the dinosaur's birthday, too (he's turning one hundred million years and one days old), they share a big pink-frosted cake and make their birthday wishes together. The party is mostly typical kid games, with the dino having to adjust because of his unusual physical dimensions. So when Danny comes to the museum to inquire if the dinosaur can attend his sixth birthday party, the sauropod readily accepts the invitation, picking up Danny's human friends on the way. There's no need for introductions between Danny and his old dinosaur pal they've known each other a long time. ![]() Whether you learned to read generations ago or you're a kid just learning to read on your own, there's fun to be had in Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur! Syd Hoff always provides a worthwhile reading experience. Much of Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur!'s charm derives from this nostalgia, the emotional resonance of watching Danny once again ride on his dinosaur's back after thirty-seven years (in our time, that is for Danny, almost no time has elapsed). Nearly four decades passed between the release of Danny and the Dinosaur in 1958 and its first sequel, Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur!, so one can imagine the new story was nostalgic for kids of the 1950s who grew up loving the original. ![]()
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