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"Can you help me? I'm looking for my best friend, Jack." Left at the doctor's office, toy dinosaur Dexter's confidence soon turns to worry: "What if he left me here ON PURPOSE?" But Jack does come back--first tearful, then gleeful to reunite with Dexter. The humorously neurotic dino and his owner, a young brown-skinned boy, are depicted with verve in the mixed-media illustrations.