If I Had A Velociraptor

Description

An imaginative little girl dreams of the best pet ever - a fuzzy baby velociraptor to snuggle up with. Our heroine can't think of anything better than bringing home a baby raptor - all teensy and tiny, fluffy and funny. It would cuddle and play, stalk birds and dust bunnies, and curl up on laps. In short, it would be the perfect pet! Readers may notice striking similarities between the raptor's behaviour and that of a more common house pet. But whether their first love is dinosaurs or kittens, little people with big imaginations will definitely warm to this perfect picture book. What do you get when you cross a child's fantasy of adopting a new pet with a child's obsession with dinosaurs? Something along the lines of If I Had a Velociraptor. Readers will laugh in recognition at the subtle (and not so subtle) similarities drawn between cats and raptors. George O'Connor's hugely appealing illustrative style will win readers' and critics' hearts. Coming next from George O'Connor: If I Had a Triceratops. (Dog-lovers, get ready!).

Author description

George O'Connor is the creator of several children's books, including the bestselling Olympians series - re-tellings of Greek myths in comic form. About If I Had a Velociraptor, he says, "Someone smarter than me once remarked that if your cat was a little bigger and you were a little bit smaller, it would eat you. That comparison informed my dino-ization of the house cat in If I Had a Raptor." George O'Connor lives (with his clawed and clever cat) in Brooklyn, New York.