"Petting Zoo" spoilers

Everybody has different opinions about ranking stories. Nick Gevers dislikes "Walking Sticks," but I like it, in fact I probably like it better than "Hour of Trust." But now I'm talking about "Petting Zoo." In short, Roderick and Rex: a boy and a dinosaur. And the dinosaur is a tyrannosaurus rex. Who can talk and is kind of purple in color. So yes, there is some Barney <tm> in there. But there is also something else, I think--something at the edge of my memory. I turn to the Children's Literature experts we have around here (I know we have a few). What was that book, or series of books, maybe by HarperCollins now, that had illustrations similar to "Curious George" but was about a boy who grew a dinosaur from an egg and then rode around on its neck? A boy in a polka-dot shirt. Sure, there are probably a bunch. But I wonder if there is one in particular that matches the back-story of "Petting Zoo" like Dr. J/Mr. H matches "Walking Sticks"? =mantis= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley Now with UPDATES! http://www.siriusfiction.com/

**** On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:12:30 -0800, Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com> said: mantis> I turn to the Children's Literature experts we have around here (I mantis> know we have a few). What was that book, or series of books, maybe mantis> by HarperCollins now, that had illustrations similar to "Curious mantis> George" but was about a boy who grew a dinosaur from an egg and mantis> then rode around on its neck? A boy in a polka-dot shirt. The description sounds like "The Enormous Egg", by Oliver Butterworth. The man character is a boy called Nate who finds a large egg from which a live triceratops hatches. The triceratops is named "Uncle Beasley" and various adventures ensue. There may be some distant connection, but it doesn't seem to quite fit the Wolfe story. Fernando