Gigantosaurus

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In Season 1, our heroes made some awesome discoveries during their adventures and games around Cretacia: indestructible bubbles, yummy flowers, an amazing playground in a cave, a stream in the middle of the desert, a basketball court made of carnivorous plants, an aurora borealis, and more!

Create a timeline that shows different periods of history (including the times when dinosaurs were alive). I powered through, explaining what's going on along the way, soon realizing it's The Boy Who Cried Wolf retold in a nonsensical way. is a bumper year for Arena Illustration with no less than 4 of our contributors featuring on this year’s collection of World Book Day Books. So if you have a child that loves being read to every night before bed, is dinosaur mad, and wants the same book over and over and over again, then this book won’t go extinct too soon!It was therefore a wonderful surprise to come across something as good as The Gruffalo but with Dinosaurs: Gigantosaurus by Jonny Duddle (what a fabulous name for a children’s author!). World Book Day's mission is to offer every child and young person the opportunity to read and love books. Compare the sizes of different dinosaurs. Use our Dinosaur Size Comparison Posters and How Big were the Dinosaurs? Banner to help. Watch this time-lapse video of the author creating illustrations for covers of the Harry Potter books. Three cute dinosaurs and one ugly dinosaur subtly named Bonehead are warned by their parents to avoid the Gigantosaurus.

Perhaps one of the mightiest of those books (although small in stature) is Gigantosaurus Dino-Spot written and illustrated by No 1 Best-selling author and Illustrator Jonny Duddle and based on Jonny’s best-selling picture book Gigantosaurus. In season 3, our four heroes will discover the joys of sharing their daily life with their little brothers and sisters who are none other than the 4 baby dinos discovered in season 2. Even if it’s a lot of fun, it’s also a lot of responsibility! Despite everything happening in the world some occasions will always make things better and one of those is World Book Day, arguably the best day of the year! All we’ve heard about for at least the last decade is The Gruffalo (I know it was first published in 1999, but as with most things it took numerous years to become a household word). It certainly is an outstanding children’s book in its own right. Having a small boy (our very own Gruffalo’s Child), my husband and I can confidently recite the book from cover to cover (as can our son, an avid reader who has already loved several copies to death).

Jonny Duddle beautifully sums this up himself in his dedications “….and don’t listen to Boneheads!” This was an interesting read. I started out loving it, but the ending was too abrupt and left me thinking, that’s it? The overall story is about a bunch of little dinosaurs that go out and play in the jungle. Their parents warn them of the Gigantosaurus. One of the dinosaurs decides to be look out while they are playing and starts testing the others by yelling they see the Gigantosaurus every other minute only to say they were kidding. The idea is the dinosaur is trying to practice for the real moment when and if the Gigantosaurus should show up.

It was a translation so I was surprised that it's still a rhyming book. Then I was confused as the rhyming was very heavy-handed. So now comes the nonsensical part for me. When the Gigantosaurus finally comes, the little dinosaurs don't believe Bonehead and they don't run yet somehow it's Bonehead who gets eaten. Basically, the three little dinosaurs play no part in the whole story and regardless of everything, they don't get eaten. Only Bonehead gets eaten yet he's the only one who actually sees the Gigantosaurus. Were his friends supposed to help?As a rule, the problem with rhythmic stories for children – which you notice when you’re reading them out loud over and over again – is that you often find that you want to add or remove words to retain a more poetic flow than the original. The Gruffalo was one of the only books I’ve read where that isn’t the case, though unfortunately that level of attention wasn’t repeated in all the other books by Julia Donaldson. Gigantosaurus, however, flows brilliantly, almost perfectly. The repeated segments are catchy and easy for you and your child to remember, for example: I’ve made this thing I call a ‘BOOK’. I might let you three have a look. We’ll play my game called DINO-SPOT. To win, you’ll have to spot the lot!” Bonehead thinks he’s the best dino spotter. But can he find GIGANTOSAURUS? Read an extract HERE This jolly Jurassic rhyming romp features all of our favourite Giganto pals in a rip-roaring adventure looking to find their nemesis the Gigantosaurus.