我喜歡（狗）、我有隻（貓），
　　養魚嘛，有點無聊。
　　
　　我真正想要的，別人想不到。
　　我想過（天竺鼠）、我想過（小老鼠），
　　但我想要一隻寵物比房子還要高！
　　
　　我想要一隻超級大的寵物，又高又壯，身體好寬好寬，尾巴好長好長。
　　
　　啊，如果我有一隻恐龍，我會教他乖乖坐，
　　撿垃圾，踢足球，還要表演翻筋斗！
　　
　　每天，我會去公園溜恐龍。
　　不知道他會汪汪叫，還是大聲吼？
　　
　　如果我有一隻恐龍，他會載我去上學……

　　「恐龍」是許多孩子心中最酷的超大型動物。在童年時期，和朋友間常會做些現在已長大的我們想起來無聊又好笑的比較，像是比誰的球鞋會發光，比誰的彈珠多，還有比誰的寵物厲害……說真的，如果有隻恐龍當寵物，那將多令人羨慕啊！----from 中文簡介/維京




A little girl dreams of having her very own pet. But what kind of animal would make the best companion? A mouse is too small; a cat is too ordinary; and a fish is too… wet! As she plays with her toy dinosaur, inspiration strikes. What about a real, live dinosaur? She could ride it to school. It would need lots of food to eat, a swimming pool to drink from, and a dino flap so it could come and go. At the end of a day spent busily imagining, the girl trudges up to bed with her little plastic dinosaur. As she falls asleep, the dinosaur from her daydreams stands in the garden with its head poking through the bedroom window, making her dreams come true.