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When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth
WINNER of the Oscar's Book Prize 2024
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See moreFrom award-winning author Sean Taylor, When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth is a hilarious picture-book about Smallasaurus, who enjoys a plant-based diet, Badasaurus who likes to eat small dinosaurs with a plant-based diet, and Worseasaurus, who enjoys eating them both!
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Set back in the days WHEN DINOSAURS WALKED THE EARTH, this is a hilarious picture-book about Smallasaurus, who enjoys a plant-based diet, and Badasaurus who likes to eat small dinosaurs who enjoy a plant-based diet. It all begins when Smallasaurus has to think. And thinking can be a problem when you only have a brain the size of a walnut. Luckily, Badasaurus only has a brain the size of a peanut . . . and so begins a hilarious game of cat and mouse. It's not long before their chasing here, there and everywhere attracts the attention of an absolutely enormous and rather hungry meat-eating dinosaur called Worseasaurus. A choice of two dinosaurs is just what Worseasaurus loves for breakfast.Will she eat the small dinosaur, with a plant-based diet?Or will she eat the great big dinosaur, with a small-dinosaur-based diet? It doesn't take long for her to choose. And it doesn't take long for Badasaurus to find out. And that's how it sometimes was back in the days . . . WHEN DINOSAURS WALKED THE EARTH.
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When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth is reviewed as a humorous and vividly illustrated children's book that provides insights into the food chain through the antics of Smallasaurus, Badasaurus, and Worsesaurus, engaging young readers with its playful storytelling.
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ISBN: 9780711277212
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 July 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Zehra Hicks
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 235.0mm
Height: 276.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 40
About the Author
Sean Taylor is an award-winning author of over 50 books for young readers of many different ages. As well as writing, he has many years' experience visiting schools, where he works with poetry and storytelling to encourage young people to write themselves. He lives with his wife and two sons in Bristol. www.seantaylorstories.com Zehra Hicks is an award-winning childrens book author and illustrator whose books have been translated in over 20 languages around the world. Zehra does love a bit of humour, so most of her picture books are guaranteed to make you chuckle. Zehra is also a tutor at Chelsea College of Arts, where she completed a short course in Book Illustration in 2009. Since then, she has been highly commended for the Macmillan Prize for Illustration, winner of the Heart of Hawick Award, named Lovereading4Kids Debut of the Year in 2011, shortlisted for the Read It Again! Cambridgeshire Childrens Picture Book Award and nominated for the Kate Greenaway.
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