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Surviving and finding a safe place to lay her eggs is difficult for Hypsilophodon with dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex around. When she falls into a mysterious pool and finds herself on a modern farm there are still problems. Finally she finds a safe place to hatch her babies, but how can she keep thirteen baby dinosaurs safe and secret? When the farmer catches one - Hector - and plans to take him to the vet, it's up to Hypsilophodon and her fiesty daughter, Henrietta, to get him back. After adaring rescue, Hypsilophodon takes all her youngsters back through the mysterious pool to her own world.
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Julia Donaldson has a fast-growing reputation as a children's writer. She won the Smarties Prize and the Blue Peter Award for The Gruffalo, illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Since then, Julie and Axel have collaborated on a number of highly successful and award-winning picture books, including The Gruffalo's Child and Room on the Broom. Julia lives in Glasgow.
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130 of 131 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The fact that this book was about a dinosaur caught my son's imagination. The fact that it was by Julia Donaldson caught mine and yet again she has written a book that will capture the imagination of children and lead to the book becoming very well thumbed. My son is 5.5 and is on his 3rd run through already. Like all good books it prompts lots of questions and offers plenty of opportunities for exploring the ideas introduced by the story. It is very different to the previous books by the same author for younger children (Gruffalo, Room on the Broom etc)and considerably longer (it takes us 3-4 nights to get through it with about 10 minutes reading per night!!)and I imagine it could be read to children up to 7 and by children of about the same age or a bit older. I have found it quite hard to get books that will capture the imagination of my son at his current age without them being either too old or too young and this is one of the first to successfully achieve it (and with a female heroine girls would also enjoy it as well). Thank you Julia and keep up the good work.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I liked this book because it is very exciting like I said, and I thought that it was really funny when Hipsilophodon called the Tractor a Tractorsaurus! (Reviewed by leela aged 6)
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I didn't know that Julia Donaldson wrote books for older children so was very pleased when I found this. My 2 sons love all her books for younger children, even now that they're getting a bit older at 4 and 6, and this new book was as much a hit with them. I can't recommend it enough
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Good story
Bought this book for my 6 year old nephew. It is different from the Julia Donaldson books I'm used to. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Liz
This Dinosaur's Diary proves fun!
I bought this for my 3 year old grandson who is an avid story-listener and it has proved a huge success. Read more
Published 24 months ago by G. D. Courtney
A boy's subject, but a girl's story!
Although the subject is normally a boy's subject (Dinosaurs), in my view this is a girl's story - and one for the Mum's too. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2010 by Judith Raddatz
good for boys
My nephew loves dinosaurs so was obvious present for him, maybe he's a bit young for it at 4, but is a nice book.
Published on 27 Jan 2010 by Bride2be
Poor Effort from Julia Donaldson
My boy LOVES dinosaurs and he likes most of Julia Donaldson's books, but this one really fell flat. It's plain boring. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2009 by Daddy-O
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