Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur

by Mordecai Richler, Mordecai Richler

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When Jacob Two-Two's father brings him back a small lizard from Kenya, it grows to enormous proportions, and to protect his now identifiable Diplodocus from frightened grown-ups, Jacob runs away with him to British Columbia.

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One of those stories where chidren---and dinosaurs---know better than adults, especially the government.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Mordecai Richler	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Richler, Mordecai	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Eyolfson, Norman	Illustrator	main author	some editions	confirmed
Petricic, Dusan	Illustrator	main author	some editions	confirmed
Fournier, Jean-Pierre	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Governor General's Literary Award (Finalist – Translation (English to French) – 1987)

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As a child, I could imagine the world of dinosaurs. At times I was a dinosaur. And so rather than do something practical when I grew up, I just stayed with dinosaurs. - Dale A. Russell, of the Canandian National Museum of Natural Sciences, in Ottawa, as quoted in The Riddle of the Dinosaur, by John Noble Wilford

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For DANIEL,
NOAH,
EMMA,
MARFA,
and JACOB

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When he was six years old, a mere child, he was known as Jacob Two-Two.

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When Jacob Two-Two's father brings him back a small lizard from Kenya, it grows to enormous proportions, and to protect his now identifiable Diplodocus from frightened grown-ups, Jacob runs away with him to British Columbia.

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