About the Book

Twelve-year-old Winx Muller is stuck at his great-aunt's house while his parents are away. Poking around a giant dusty closet packed with junk, Winx finds a pair of very old, very stinky socks. Socks that sing promises of time travel.

It’s the Mesozoic or bust for mega-fauna fan, Winx! But the stinky socks’ travel rules are hard to follow. So, along with his sister Marta, Winx digs up tons of paleo facts to help guide his time travel.

Each travel theory they test sends Winxcrashing around the time-space continuum. He getscovered with pig snot in Colonial America, chased by men who like to blow up things in Victorian England, trapped by an ancient tracker in the Desert Southwest, and sucked under a river in British Colonial India.

Will Winx ever have a truly din-ormous encounter? Or is he on the brink of extinction?

Filling the gap between Magic Tree House and Jurassic Park, Winx Thinks - Dinosaurs! is for young minds craving adventure tales packed with big ideas.

About the Author

Katie O’Brien Engen, M.Ed. and wordplay specialist, writes stories and cross-curricular learning resources to engage young minds with big ideas. She works in private practice mentoring students with executive functioning and language processing challenges. Katie also guest blogs about writing, reading, and teaching as well as reviews kidlit books for various outlets. Happy to leave her desk for family, sports, or books, Katie is fueled by faith, laughter, and ice cream. She lives in Maryland where one of her favorite runs is the ~10 miles to the Washington Monument in D.C.