This is a cute and funny book I'd rate a ★★★★★ for anyone, especially Alaina (she LOVES cute things). Imagine if dinos hadn't (BAM!) gone extinct, and if you could have them as pets. Some of you might've had a dream about this, especially if you're a "dino-holic". (If you did, please don't call me or the author a "psychic psycho".) Anyway, the author of this thing tried to imagine the qualities of certain dinos in the house, and if they just didn't fit, he put them in a different category. There are a lot of categories: dinos for beginners, dinos as pets, dinos as flying pets, dinos for recreation and the circus, dinos for security work, dinos for meat and eggs, dinos for hide and feathers, and dinos for safari parks and zoos. (that is a lot of categories.) Plus, each "dinoscription" is a long and descriptive one (nice, unless you aren't a very skilled reader). In these descriptions, it explains basic facts, its diet, a good place for it to live, conditions for mating with another dinosaur and where to find it. This is kind of like a how-to-care-for-a-kitty or something book but with dinos! That's kind of the whole joke of the book.
The illustrations are very detailed and are probably taken from real photos of places and then they use computers to add the dinos. They probably did a little editing of other things, like if it is holding something in its mouth or they did something that they mischievously weren't willing to really let happen--like messing up a kitchen.
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