Status Updates From The Mystery of the Dinosaur...

So the kids are in a blizzard, wondering if they’ll be stuck and have to eat their own boots. They’ve been following their prime suspect Nadira Khan out onto the quarry. Topics of conversation that have been sparked by our latest reading: conscience versus conscious. Doing what is morally right. Helping your enemy with a foil blanket, even if you think she is the criminal. Drift, the dog is like Scooby Doo.

Izzy smiled “We’ll go to the standing stones at dawn to consult our spirit guides about the most favorable day to visit” (she thinks the dinosaur bomrs are dragon bones

“Aliens!” Emily gasped
“Giant lizard aliens!” Scott corrected
“Shape-shifting giant lizard aliens!” Jack gasped through howls of laughter.

Fun reference to tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists thinking dinosaurs were other than that

“It’s pretty good, so far,” says my daughter. (She keeps falling asleep every time I begin reading to her.). So maybe it isn’t that gripping a tale just yet.