Great fun--gargantuan souvenir-turned-pet Bob comes in incredibly handy in all sorts of situations. Best part? The song at the end the little daughter composes to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne": "He's Mesozoic and heroic, and we love him soooo!" ( )

This is a cute story of the Lazardo family who traveled all over the world. This time they traveled to Africa and found a dinosaur. They named him Bob and brought him home to New York with them. Bob loved livinv with the Lizardos and ended up playing on the local baseball team.

Dinosaur Bob is found by the Lazardo family while vacationing in the Africa Safari. They came to love him and took him with them on some great adventures with the final stop being home. Bob then has many adventures while in the city. A great book for a young readers mind.

As a reader I liked the book. I liked the different places that they traveled and how they traveled there. It was a fun book just for having a dinosaur in present times. You start to think about what you would do with a dinosaur if you had one today.

As a teacher I could use this book to tap into my students’ imagination. What would they do if they had a dinosaur, where would they keep it, and what would they feed it. I could also have them write a story about what animal, if they could have any as a pet, would they have and why. ( )

The Lazardos are not your typical family. So it follows that they require no typical pet. Enter Bob. They find him on safari in Africa and decide that he needs a good home. I love this story of a baseball playing dinosaur and the free-spirited family who take him in. By the writer of George Shrinks. The families are very similar in spirit. Such a great book! ( )

Summary: While vacationing in AFrica, the Lazardo family finds and brings back to America a friendly dinosaur that becomes the talk of the town. ( )