Mayor Bart Petersen does not know it, but he tonight he wrote a worried kind of note to my daughter..... and so as she finds the note in the morning by her bed our theme study on dinosaurs is launched......
(I copied some header from the City of Indianapolis website to make the letter look official. Oh and in case you don't know, the building he drives past is the Children's Museum)

January 9, 2006.

Dear Detective K B,
My name is Mayor Bart Petersen, I’m the Mayor of Indianapolis and I need your help! Last night I decided to drive home from my office a different route than I normally take. I was very scared to see that a building I drove past was being destroyed by giant lizards!! It was incredible! This building looked like it had giant lizard-like animals trying to escape from it, and in the process they were demolishing the building.
I need your help to find out what on earth is going on in my fair city. I don’t want the people of Indianapolis to be eaten by these giant creatures! What can I do? This is the first I have seen of this kind of thing.
I need your help K, to try and find out what is going on. Please make a report and write back to me so I can have this assessed by my disaster management team. Should I declare an emergency?
This is what I need to know:
What are these giant creatures?
What are they called?
Will they eat the people of Indianapolis?
Where did they come from?
How many kinds of them are there?
Are they all that large?
How long have they been here?
Please write a report on everything you find out.
You can find the scene of this attack on Illinois and 30th. Tell your mother to take Washington street all the way downtown, and then turn right on Illinois Street. Drive for about 3 miles and you will see the giant lizards.
Take your backpack, with some notepaper and answer my questions. Please hurry, as I am depending on your answers to know what to do. I am very worried about these giant lizards and the people of Indianapolis. Who knows what might happen?
Oh, and K- please be careful.
Yours Truly,
Bart Peterson, Mayor.