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A female Maiasaura finds a lost egg in the forest and decides to look after it with her own egg. Surprisingly, a baby tyrannosaurus hatches from the egg! The greathearted mother accepts and raises him as her own son, Heart. One day, Heart goes to pick berries and comes across another tyrannosaurus. Heart then makes a tough decision and leaves his family behind to discover who he really is. The fourth title in this series, "I Will Love You Forever" delivers a heartwarming story about adoption with vivid illustrations and endearlingly drawn characters.--Publisher.
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Museyon (2017), 40 pages
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LibraryThing member datrappert
Completely weird story of mother who nurses a T-Rex egg - the dinosaurs look more like giant pickles, and the story has an abrupt really really sad ending. Just too weird.
LibraryThing member Carlathelibrarian
When a mother Maiasaura finds an egg in the forest, she takes it home and looks after it with her own egg. When the eggs hatch, she has a baby Tyrannosaurus on her hands. At first, she takes him back to the forest, but can't leave him there when she hears his cries. She brings him home and raises
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him as her own son naming him Heart. Heart thinks he is a Maiasaurus, eats berries, and is frightened of the stories he hears about Tyrannosaurus. When Heart goes to collect berries one day, he comes upon a Tyrannosaurus. He is told that he too is a Tyrannosaurus, just like the dinosaur he has met. Once he realizes that this dinosaur means to hurt his family, he attacks to protect his family. The foster son of the Maiasaura discovers his real identity and goes to live with the Tyrannosaurus, but never forgets his foster mother. This is the fourth title in the Tyrannosaurus series. I Will Love You Forever delivers a heartwarming story about adoption. My grandson loves watching the television series "Dinosaur Train" in which a Pteranodon family adopts a Tyrannosaurus so the concept was not new to him, but being only four and not adopted, he does not understand it. This would be a good story to use with children who have been adopted. The illustrations are simply drawn and colourful. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via Netgalley. Show Less
LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
Japanese author/artist Tatsuya Miyanishi, whose series of prehistoric picture-books manage to explore some very human issues in dinosaur form, returns in this fourth title featuring the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex. When a mother Maiasaura finds an abandoned egg, she takes it into her care, worried
Originally published in Japan in 2006, and then in this English edition in 2017, I Will Love You Forever has the same kind of heartwarming tale and vividly colorful artwork as its predecessors. As I was reading it, I kept thinking that these books from Miyanishi are so unlikely, in the sense that nothing about them - the overtly violent narratives, the almost-garish color scheme in the artwork - would initially lead me to suppose that they would leave me with a lump in my throat. And yet, they always do. This one was no different, in that respect, and although I found the ending here a little bit abrupt and open-ended - Heart just disappears, presumably going off with his birth father? - I still found the story quite poignant. Recommended to children who enjoy anthropomorphic dinosaur tales, as well as to those readers who have read and enjoyed other Miyanishi titles in this series.
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it might be eaten by a passing Tyrannosaurus. Imagine here surprise when the egg hatches, and the newborn baby is a T-Rex himself! Initially seeking to abandon the infant, her mother's heart simply can't accept such a course of action, deciding to raise Heart as her child instead. But what will this unusual child do, when he meets another T-Rex for the first time, and discovers who he truly is...?Originally published in Japan in 2006, and then in this English edition in 2017, I Will Love You Forever has the same kind of heartwarming tale and vividly colorful artwork as its predecessors. As I was reading it, I kept thinking that these books from Miyanishi are so unlikely, in the sense that nothing about them - the overtly violent narratives, the almost-garish color scheme in the artwork - would initially lead me to suppose that they would leave me with a lump in my throat. And yet, they always do. This one was no different, in that respect, and although I found the ending here a little bit abrupt and open-ended - Heart just disappears, presumably going off with his birth father? - I still found the story quite poignant. Recommended to children who enjoy anthropomorphic dinosaur tales, as well as to those readers who have read and enjoyed other Miyanishi titles in this series.
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Language
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Japanese
Original publication date
2017-06-01
Physical description
40 p.; 8.5 inches
ISBN
1940842174 / 9781940842172