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Trika, a lilac triceratops, leaps out of the ferns toward Rexik, a little orange tyrannosaurus sitting by the river.

Rexik

“Rexik” is our own series of tales about a little orange T. rex who is careful, a bit shy and good at noticing what others miss. His best friend is Trika, a lilac triceratops: she does first and thinks later, and she kindly teases him as Mister Maybe-Not. They live in Fern Valley at the end of the Cretaceous, surrounded only by animals that really lived at the same time as the T. rex, and every tale contains a true fact about dinosaurs.

Beside them are his gentle mom, who always finds out first because “Mom’s ears hear everything”, and his huge dad, who sings off-key and tells tall tales that begin “When I was your size…”. There are also stern Uncle Horn and cheerful Aunt Frilla, Granny Anki the ankylosaur with a flower on her armour, and chatty Quetza the postwoman, who reminds everyone that she is a flying reptile, not a dinosaur. Every tale ends in the evening: Rexik puts a “treasure of the day” from today’s adventure on his shelf. And in every picture of the series a tiny blue beetle with a red berry is hiding, which is fun to look for together with your child.

The tales can be read on their own, but they are best in order: “Rexik and Trika”, “Rexik, Trika and the Big Rain”, “Rexik and Quetza the Postwoman”, “Rexik, Trika and the Longest Neck”, “Rexik, Trika and the Mystery of the Giant Footprints”, “Rexik and the Lost Egg”, “Rexik, Trika and the Dads' Contest”, “Rexik and the Bully Pachycephalosaurus” and “Rexik, Trika and the Meteor Shower”. That way you can see Rexik make new friends as his shelf of treasures grows from tale to tale.

Coloring pages for the “Rexik” series

Stories

  1. Trika, a lilac triceratops, leaps out of the ferns toward Rexik, a little orange tyrannosaurus sitting by the river.

    Story 1. Rexik and Trika

    Noisy Trika asks Rexik to play hide-and-seek, but she just can’t find him, even though he’s standing right beside her the whole time.

    Ages 2–53 min readDinosaurs

  2. Rexik and Trika laugh in the pouring rain while their dads build shelters from branches and ferns; beside the path lies a bumpy rock with a little flower on top.

    Story 2. Rexik, Trika and the Big Rain

    Rexik’s and Trika’s dads compete to build the best rain shelter, but the best one turns out to be a bumpy rock that wasn’t there yesterday.

    Ages 2–53 min readDinosaurs

  3. Quetza, a big grey-blue quetzalcoatlus, swoops down into the valley with a leaf-letter in her beak, while Rexik, a little orange tyrannosaurus, and Trika, a little lilac triceratops, watch her from below.

    Story 3. Rexik and Quetza the Postwoman

    Quetza the postwoman brings Rexik a mysterious three-word letter, so he and Trika set off across the valley to see if something is wrong.

    Ages 6–86 min readDinosaurs

  4. Little Rexik and Trika tip their heads back to gaze up at Alya, a huge alamosaurus whose neck rises above the trees.

    Story 4. Rexik, Trika and the Longest Neck

    Trika bets tall Alya that she can find Quetza’s lost pouch first. But the pouch was somewhere Alya could never look herself.

    Ages 6–87 min readDinosaurs

  6. Rexik and Trika sit on the sand by the river, guarding a white egg under fern leaves.

    Story 6. Rexik and the Lost Egg

    Rexik finds a lonely egg by the river and guards it with Trika for many days, until he learns who is living inside.

    Ages 2–54 min readDinosaurs

  7. Rexik’s Dad and Uncle Horn compete to see who can roar louder, Rexik and Trika laugh, and far away the moms roll a stone to the stream

    Story 7. Rexik, Trika and the Dads' Contest

    Rexik’s Dad and Uncle Horn compete to see who is stronger, while the moms quietly save the nests full of eggs from a flood.

    Ages 6–88 min readDinosaurs

  8. Rexik, Trika and the pachycephalosaurus Flint sit on a log bridge over a stream

    Story 8. Rexik and the Bully Pachycephalosaurus

    A newcomer pachycephalosaurus shoves everyone in the valley, but Rexik notices that the bully is always alone, and trust can’t be shoved into place with a head.

    Ages 9–1212 min readDinosaurs

  9. Trika reaches her tail toward a sky full of shooting stars, Rexik looks up, and Mom and Dad lie in the grass on the hill

    Story 9. Rexik, Trika and the Meteor Shower

    Trika wants to catch a shooting star, Rexik notices that the stars burn out high in the sky, and Dad’s “star” turns out not to be a star at all.

    Ages 6–87 min readDinosaurs