When he finds his true family, he learns why he is the way he is, and ends up standing up to his other family when they come to attack! I think children who like dinosaurs will really enjoy the tale, especially if they are already familiar with "The Ugly Duckling" and are "in the know" on where this story is headed. This latest offering from Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson sees her teaming up with illustrator David Roberts.

otherwise, this is a fun book with a clear rhyme and rhythm, which encourages kids to recite along, or at least to finish the sentences. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. Place a blue cloth on the floor or a table to represent the river and arrange the model dinosaurs on each side. With its dinosaur theme, colorful illustrations and rhyming narrative it's sure to be highly entertaining for children. The book is about two different groups of dinosaurs and the main character is poor Tyrannosaurus Drip.

We’ve also made a more professional version of the song, which you can listen to on streaming platforms such as Spotify.

Rexes and this was the first one we've read where they were truly the bad guys, so he kept asking "why, Mom? Enjoy the other stories by Julia Donaldson and David Roberts: The Troll, Jack and the Flumflum Tree, The Flying Bath and The Cook and the King. Finely crack some hard boiled eggs, dip in food colouring and peel after a few hours to make mysteriously patterned eggs to put in your nest. The mean Tyrannosauruses try to capture Drip and take him back to their home, only to realise that it might not be as easy as they think.I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. In addition we have been looking at non-fiction, information books and we now know the names of several dinosaurs.

A rhyming text with a memorable refrain, along with a gentle anti-war message and bold, appealing illustrations, will make this book a welcome addition to any child's library. The story of the duckbill egg that grew up in a family of dinosaurs is full of opportunities to explore inferred reading- what do you know about the story that isn't explained in the text? Ours came with a nicely done audio track, too, which is why it took till this point of the year for me to read it. One of my television songs, A SQUASH AND A SQUEEZE, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. Everyone knows that tyrannosauruses are big and scary, so when a placid duckbill dinosaur's egg ends up in the wrong nest confusion is sure to ensue!Shades of The Ugly Duckling, this is a solid children's book but not up to the best Julia Donaldson has to offer. The text is scattered with a few bigger and more complex word, especially the names of some dinosaurs which will challenge younger readers abilities, but with potential help from an adult should be easy to understand. She lives in Glasgow and spends a lot of time on stage performing her brilliant sell-out singalong shows! In the end, the poor little "Tyrannosaurus Drip" gets a chance to prove himself to his true family and become a hero.

We turned the narrative poem (The Spider and the Fly) into a playscript, by setting it out correctly and adding detailed stage directions.Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married. The text is full of different types of punctuation too, to help children get used to the different types and their functions.