She meets the same ferocious animals on the way home, but instead of out-fiercing them, she treats them kindly. Then, on the day before her birthday she says to her parents, " 'Okay, then, foo on you' (She had terrible manners.) 'If you aren't going to get me a brontosaurus, I'm going out and get one for myself." She packs her suitcase and sets off and her parents let her go! In part, because they are sure she will return shortly, but also because they are exhausted and decide to have a cup of tea and a cookie.Įventually Lulu runs away, despite the sadness she feels as she hears the voice of the brontosaurus calling, "Come back, little pet, come back," getting quieter with every step. " An only child, Lulu would "screech till the lightbulbs burst and throw herself down on the floor, and then she would kick her heels and wave her arms" whenever she was told "no." Naturally, when Lulu announces that she wants a brontosaurus for her birthday in two weeks time their patient explanations of why this gift is impossible the throws the mother of all fits, for twelve days. She was a pain - a very big pain - in the b u t t.
In chapter one (there are twelve chapters and three chapter thirteens - you have to read it to find out why.) we learn that Lulu was a pain, "She wasn't a pain in the elbow. But, I have learned after many years, most kids are entirely happy to have almost anything read out loud to them, not to diminish the loveliness of Lulu and the Brontosaurus in any way. I think I thought that Lulu and the Brontosaurus would be a bit like Kay Thompson's Eloise with dinosaurs and thus unappealing to a boy currently reading about a viking from another planet carrying around the big toe of an evil tyrant named Drool.
So, over the course of two nights he struggled to keep his eyes open for several more pages than I had intended to read, much to my surprise.
So if you don't want to read this book, you can close it up right now - you won't hurt my feelings." I was hoping my seven year old son might pick up Lulu and the Brontosaurus and read it on his own, but he is still in the thrall of graphic novels and I really wanted to read this book out loud.
You know this right from page one when the narrator tells you she knows very well that people and dinosaurs never lived on the Earth at the same and and that the name "brontosaurus" has been replaced by "apatosaurus." But, "since I'm the person writing the story, I get to choose what I write, and I'm writing about a girl and a B R O N T O S A U R U S.
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