Bolivar by Sean Rubin

Sibyl lives in New York City where most people are just too busy to notice anything.  Sibyl seems to be the only one who has noticed that her next door neighbor is actually a dinosaur.  No one will believe her, so she tries desperately to get a picture of him.  Bolivar (the dinosaur) is not at all eager to be recognized.  He is afraid that if people knew what he really was, he could never go back to his quiet and pleasantly routine life he enjoys so much.

Here is another book that is hard to pigeonhole.  Parts of it are definitely graphic novel style, but other pages are formatted like an illustrated short story.  It is much longer than the Belinda story, and the pictures are more detailed and done in an illustrative style rather than a cartoon style.  The book is a delight to read as the reader gets caught up in looking for Bolivar on each of the pages, just as Sibyl is looking for him everywhere she goes in the city.  There is also a fun social satire going on,that might be lost on the little kids, but will delight more sophisticated older readers. (224 p. 2017)