# "Petting Zoo" spoilers *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 25 Mar 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *25 Mar 2002, 19:12* 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 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/ --- ### Fernando Q. Gouvea *25 Mar 2002, 22:12 · follows Michael Andre-Driussi* **** On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:12:30 -0800, Michael Andre-Driussi 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 ``` Fernando Q. Gouvea Department of Mathematics Editor, FOCUS and MAA Online Colby College Mathematical Association of America Waterville, ME 04901 http://www.maa.org fqgouvea at colby.edu ========================================================== The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -- Robert Heinlein -- ``` ---