Name: Alonka and the Dinosaur
SKU: 18102
Availability: InStock

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The book Alonka and the Dinosaur is dedicated to a very special girl named Alonka. She is a talented young artist and she adores dinosaurs. She loves animals, but most of all she loves dinosaurs. She understands that she will never see living dinosaurs, and that makes her sad. She knows all types of those creatures, how they looked like and what they ate. She also likes to study all kinds of animals, insects, snakes and birds. Alonka had a lot of toys, mostly animals, and no dolls. The best present on her birthday was not a Barbie Doll, not a book with sweet princess stories, but an Encyclopedia.

Every school day she left her plastic dinosaurs, snakes and lizards at home. She missed them all day long. At school Alonka had a hard time in writing. She liked to write imaginative stories, but the teacher demanded that she create a realistic one. Mrs. Glitter keep saying, “Animals do not talk, and nothing magic happens. Write something what can REALLY happen in REAL life.”

Alonka feel frustrated. She believed that animals talk and magic things do happen. She thought it was boring to write a story about a dentist visit or about a field trip. She enjoyed using her imagination.

— Lana Rayberg

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Lana Rayberg is an artist, writer, and designer. She immigrated to the United States in 1992. She studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

She lives in New York and works in the public school system. She is one of the authors of the emigrant prose almanacs Poberezhye, Arena, Pilgrim, Strany Sveta, and Slovo/Word. She has also published several collections of short stories. Her paintings have been used to illustrate books by New York writers, including Elena Litinskaya and Tatyana Yankovskaya. She has also illustrated book of poems by Lyudmila Taimasova and the novel Belovezhskie sny (Belovezh Dreams) by Alexander Volkovich, as well as the book of poems Safyanovy bloknot (Safyan’s Notebook) by Marina Savvinykh.

The book Alonka and the Dinosaur is about a very special girl named Alonka. She a talented young artist and she adores dinosaurs.