The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek ANNOTATION
George the stegosaurus tries to help twins Joan and Joey Brown save their mother's ranch, but his enthusiasm gets everyone into trouble.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Originally published in 1955, this well loved classic returns
with all the original text by Evelyn Sibley Lampman and illustrations by
Hubert Buel.
Purple House Press is dedicated to reviving all of YOUR favorite old
children's books from the 1920s-1960s.
SYNOPSIS
Suppose you were hunting around in the desert for a fossil and
instead you found a real (and very large) dinosaur, genus Stegosaurus. Joan
and Joey Brown did! Only nobody would believe they had found one, which was
just as well because George (as they called him) was very shy.
He was a loyal friend, though, and he did his best to help the twins with
their schemes to make money to finance their mother's dry little ranch on
Cricket Creek. George ate sagebrush, looked for fossils, and fought an
airplane (which he thought was a Pteranodon) with faithful enthusiasm, but
his nut-sized brain often made him more hindrance than help. Especially when
he went after the bank robber!
Mrs. Lampman has told her hilarious story so convincingly that you'll be
looking for dinosaurs around every mesa. And who knows? Maybe you'll find
one!
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