story. If I was the author of the book, I would have taken out the first thirty pages of the book because it was just a small build up to a very insignificant moment in the story. In the beginning of the book, a small dinosaur that had escaped from Isla Nublar had ended up on a beach where it bit a little girl and sent her to the hospital to get it checked. This event results in Alan Grant receiving a fax from Columbia medical center with an x-Ray of the skeleton revealing to Alan that there may be a