re: Enormous Egg

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting hammeris1@bellsouth.net:

> > Don't remember ever coming across that one, but I do recall
> > The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
> >
> >  THE ENORMOUS EGG, written in 1956, is the fantastical tale of young
> >  Nate Twitchell of Freedom, New Hampshire, who, one fine day, discovers
> >  that one of his chickens has hatched out a baby Triceratops.
> >
> > A clear case of BAD.
>
> ROFL !
> You'd think they'd at least try to make it a theropod, let alone a raptor.
>
> In TSSoCC, one day the stego just wanders up from between two hills 
> to meet kid(s) on a field trip (I think, been a while) - I guess out 
> of some metamorphic rock wormhole.

Yes, I remember The Enormous Egg fondly.  Never read TSSoCC.

Does anyone else out there remember this story (I think we read it in school)?

A kid is walking up in the mountains and discovers a whole slew of 
dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in a kind of suspended 
animation.  He (I think it was a boy) then discovers the alien robot 
that has been collecting and preserving all these specimens for tens of 
millions of years and has to run for his life to avoid becoming part of 
the collection.

I remember thinking the chase sequence was pretty exciting, but mostly 
I thought about how cool it would have been to find a collection of 
preserved dinosaurs!

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