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The Brontosaurus Birthday Cake
When Bobby's brontosaurus birthday cake turns into a real creature and begins to grow, both problems and joys begin.
- GenresPicture Books
32 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 1984
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Robert McCrum
65 books41 followersRobert McCrum is an associate editor of the Observer. He was born and educated in Cambridge. For nearly 20 years he was editor-in-chief of the publishers Faber & Faber. He is the co-author of The Story of English (1986), and has written six novels. He was the literary editor of the Observer from 1996 to 2008, and has been a regular contributor to the Guardian since 1990
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April 24, 2020
I incidentally found my copy of this book a few days ago. I was strung-out at the time and finding it instantly softened me, I thought I'd given the book away years ago.
It's about a boy who makes a wish while cutting his brontosaurus birthday cake only for the cake to transform into a real life brontosaurus ... a tiny bestial best friend! But the brontosaurus keeps growing and growing and soon enough the whole town has noticed so the greedy mayor locks the brontosaurus in a zoo ($$$). Brontosaurus is so forlorn, locked alone in the zoo, the last of its kind. The boy is heartbroken, he's lost his only friend. Suddenly there's news that brontosaurus has escaped (!), and one night brontosaurus visits the boy's window. They make a pact to only meet in secret, brontosaurus can't stay in the town anymore or else it'd end up in that miserable zoo, so they must live apart for brontosaurus to be free. But the boy lives assured that from to time to time he'll sneak out for a secret rendez-vous with the brontosaurus perhaps along a secluded beach or deserted town, someplace far away.
I adored this book, an imaginary brontosaurus best friend, washed out twilight scenes in velvety watercolour. I remember having a brontosaurus birthday cake for my 5th (?) birthday. Dad mixed the green and blue food colouring to get that cerulean blue brontosaurus cake icing. I ate some of my brontosaurus every recess for the next week till it was gone. Everyone kept asking why my tongue was blue.
It's about a boy who makes a wish while cutting his brontosaurus birthday cake only for the cake to transform into a real life brontosaurus ... a tiny bestial best friend! But the brontosaurus keeps growing and growing and soon enough the whole town has noticed so the greedy mayor locks the brontosaurus in a zoo ($$$). Brontosaurus is so forlorn, locked alone in the zoo, the last of its kind. The boy is heartbroken, he's lost his only friend. Suddenly there's news that brontosaurus has escaped (!), and one night brontosaurus visits the boy's window. They make a pact to only meet in secret, brontosaurus can't stay in the town anymore or else it'd end up in that miserable zoo, so they must live apart for brontosaurus to be free. But the boy lives assured that from to time to time he'll sneak out for a secret rendez-vous with the brontosaurus perhaps along a secluded beach or deserted town, someplace far away.
I adored this book, an imaginary brontosaurus best friend, washed out twilight scenes in velvety watercolour. I remember having a brontosaurus birthday cake for my 5th (?) birthday. Dad mixed the green and blue food colouring to get that cerulean blue brontosaurus cake icing. I ate some of my brontosaurus every recess for the next week till it was gone. Everyone kept asking why my tongue was blue.
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