Dinosaurs are often featured in Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin, like most boys his age, is fascinated by dinosaurs and often has daydreams about them. He has professed desire to become a paleontologist and is frequently found digging holes in the yard of his house in search of fossils. Calvin will occasionally pretend to be a dinosaur, and it is difficult to coerce him out of this state.
Dinosaurs appear in different contexts in the strip. Calvin may imagine himself as a dinosaur, apparently persuaded that his fantasy is a reality, evidenced by how he bites his mom in one strip, and attempts to fly like a pterodactyl in another. Calvin may also simply be daydreaming about dinosaurs, whether in the Mesozoic Era or in a modern setting (dinosaurs are pictured attacking a town and a museum).
Dinosaur book
The Dinosaur book is a book on dinosaurs that Calvin is seen reading in some strips.
One time, Calvin is seen reading it while Hobbes is digging a hole that Calvin is in.
Another time, the book is thrown in a trash can when Calvin imagines himself as a T-rex attacking a dinosaur but failing (in reality, Calvin throwing a snowball at Susie Derkins, who then chases him around angrily).
"It'll build character!"
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