This treasury includes
Danny the Dinosaur (1958)
Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur (1985)
Danny and the Dinosaur Go to Camp (1996)
I'm a bit baffled about the dates. Everywhere I see claims the Goes to Camp was copyright 1996, yet this treasury was clearly copyrighted in 1993. There is no additional copyright date shown for the two additional stories.
The original story is half the book. The other two are half the length of that book. There is a huge gap in time from when they were written, yet the stories could easily fit in the same time line.
In the first, Danny runs into the dinosaur in the museum. It is just natural for everyone to do things with the dinosaur.
In the next, Danny is celebrating a birthday, so the dinosaur does too.
In the final, the kids go to camp. The dinosaur makes camp a lot of fun in a different way.
The later stories do continue in the same spirit of normalcy with the absurd.
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