How to Tame a Triceratops (Dino Riders Series #1)

by Will Dare, Mariano Epelbaum (Illustrator)

Overview

Welcome to The Lost Plains!

A wild west frontier where dinosaurs never went extinct.

Josh Sanders wants to be the next great dinosaur cowboy! Ropin' raptors and ridin' bucking brontosauruses just like his hero Terrordactyl Bill.

Too bad he's stuck working on his family's Iguanodon ranch, riding his ancient dino, Plodder. The closest Josh has ever been to a T-Rex is reading about them in his Dino Cowboy Handbook.

To prove he has what it takes, Josh is determined to win the annual Settlement Race. But he's gonna need one fast dino to stand a chance. With the help of his friends Sam and Abi, Josh will need to tame a wild Triceratops!

This wildly entertaining new chapter book series for ages 7 and up features exciting illustrations and real dino facts! A great way to get kids reading. And don't miss the next book in the series: How to Rope a Giganotosaurus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492636175
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	04/04/2017
Series:	Dino Riders Series , #1
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	347,901
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Ever since he was a little boy, Will Dare has been mad about T. rexes and velociraptors. He always wondered what it would be like to live in a world where they were still alive. Now, grown up, he has put pen to paper and imagined just that world. Will lives in rural America with his wife and best pal Charge (a dog, not a triceratops!).

Mariano Epelbaum is an illustrator and character designer from Buenos Aires. He worked as the art director for the animated film Underdogs, and enjoys trying different styles of illustration inspired by each project he works on. When he’s not working, he likes playing with his two daughters, watching movies, and going for walks outdoors. Visit him online at mariano.artstation.com.

Editorial Reviews

04/24/2017
Dinosaurs take the place of horses in Dare’s zippy first story in the Dino Riders series, a kind of Wild West/Jurassic mashup. Josh Sanders is an ambitious young dino rider in the land of the Lost Plains, who hopes to enter the Founders’ Day Race, but his gallimimus, Plodder, is old and slow. When Josh acquires a triceratops, however, the puppylike dinosaur isn’t race ready either. Epelbaum’s cinematic, grayscale artwork plays up the rowdiness of the premise of an adventure laced with cowpoke lingo and stuffed with dinosaurs both speedy and slow. Simultaneously available: How to Rope a Gigantosaurus. Ages 7–10. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

"Zippy . . . an adventure laced with cowpoke lingo and stuffed with dinosaurs both speedy and slow" — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2017-01-17
Young Josh needs to up his ride if he's going to win the Trihorn settlement's 100th-anniversary Founders' Day race and meet his hero, Terrordactyl Bill.Set on the Lost Plains, where ranchers tend to herds of iguanodons, and horses (if there were any) would be easy pickings for the local predators, this series kickoff pits a brash lad and sidekick and schoolmates Sam and Abi against not only the requisite bully, but such fiercer adversaries as attacking pterodactyls. Josh's first challenge after eagerly entering the race is finding a faster, nimbler steed than his steady but old gallimimus, Plodder. Along comes Charge—an aptly named, if not-quite-fully-trained triceratops with speed, brains, and, it turns out, a streak of loyalty that saves Josh's bacon both here and in a simultaneously publishing sequel, How To Rope a Giganotosaurus, which prominently features T. Rex's much larger cousin. Dare adds a map, as well as spot illustrations of rural Western types (Josh and Abi are white, Sam has dark skin and tightly curled hair) astride toothy, brightly patterned dinos. In both adventures Josh weathers regular encounters with dinosaur dung, snot, and gas as well as threats to life and limb to show up the aforementioned bully and emerge a hero. Adventures and misadventures, Old West style—but with dinos. (Fantasy. 8-10)

Kirkus Reviews