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One of my favorite parts of the story is the idea that the dinosaurs still exist somewhere under Central Park. I don't know if there would still be an entire dinosaur head buried under the ground, but I liked the idea of this dinosaur looking up from the past at a boy drawing in the park. If you look carefully, the picture of the boy drawing the bird echoes an earlier drawing in the book where Waterhouse is young and he is also drawing a bird. This was my way of showing that Waterhouse's work lives on and reminds us that what we do today when we imagine something from the past is exactly what Waterhouse did all those years ago.


Illustration Brian Selznick