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|title=Tyrannosaurus Drip

|author=Julia Donaldson

|date=July 2007

|isbn=978-1405090001

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The career that dinosaurs made in popular culture never ceases to astonish me: from ''Jurassic Park'' to ''Dintopia'' to ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', but particularly in countless books, cartoons, feature length films, toys and games for pre-school aged and bit older children. I have to confess that the dino-mania has never particularly got hold of me (although I '''did''', actually, have a plum-coloured small one living behind a hidden gate on the way to my kindergarten). I suspect the appeal must have something to do with the fact that dinosaurs are semiotically "anomalous" creatures: both real (with their reality confirmed by science) and un-real (has anybody ever seen one?), dwelling on this borderline between fantasy and science that produces such rich field for modern genre entertainments.