A worthy addition to most collections, joining the ranks of other inspiring alphabet books such as Innosanto Nagara’s A is for Activist and Rio Cortez’s The ABCs of Black History.
While somewhat less sanitized than some of the others in this series, this is still a mixed bag in terms of tone and presentation of a charged period in history underlying an accessible if imperfect biography.
This reissue, translated by Helen Wang and formerly known as Gus, the Dinosaur Bus, remains a fun and silly tale for dinosaur aficionados who require no explanation for why there is a city-dwelling brontosaurus.