Of course, some days it's a spaceman or a detective, but just as often his career goal at age 5 has something to do with dinosaurs.
It's not entirely Gould's fault. Dinosaurs have been Brendan's obsession since his earliest days—an obsession he shares with a growing number of his peers. While dinosaurs have always held an attraction for kids, today's kids seem to live and breathe dinosaurs.
We have more dinosaur paraphernalia than we do dollars by a long shot. The collection includes numerous dinosaur models (including some high-priced ones from the British Museum), a set of four juice mugs (T-Rex is permanently reserved for Brendan), a T-shirt, baseball cap, and backpack, and a "dinosaur world" board game that seeks to educate as well as entertain (sample question: "What was the largest known meat-eater or carnivore of the Permian period?").
The bookshelf groans with tomes describing the beasts, and Brendan ...
