Gigantosaurus

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The story is a dinosaur re-telling of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and so there is a moral to the story as well. 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.

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). My son loves the story and this book has been a favourite at bedtime for a few nights on the run now. But like the boy who cried wolf in the famous folktale, Bonehead doesn't take his job as lookout seriously.Please DO NOT expect Smarboard notebook files to open unless you have Smartboard software on your computer. When reviewing picture books, I firstly ignore the text and flip through the pages allowing the illustrations to talk to me.

A wonderful surprise is the fantastic fold out in the middle of the book – children will be absolutely tickled! It also provides information on dinosaurs and the acknowledgement that the Gigantosaurus was created just for the book. We got it from the library and out of the stack of books we checked out, this one always gets put on the top of the pile to read first. I actually felt kind of bad for young Bonehead because unlike the wolf story where the child is being willfully untruthful, Bonehead simply mistakes other large animals for 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.Gigantosaurus, the multi-award-winning animated TV series produced by Cyber Group Studios, is based on Jonny Duddle’s book published by Bonnier Books UK Ltd, which has sold over 600,000 copies worldwide. Please DO NOT view the PowerPoint in PowerPoint viewer, view it as a SLIDESHOW, otherwise it will not be interactive. Several dinosaur types are mentioned, but nothing beyond the usual 4 that children know by the time they are three. The story is very much based on Aesop Fable ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf,’ and has some funny, if not a little dark, turns, which are very quickly followed by a happy resolve. This book doesn't have dinosaur poop in but does have lots of dinosaurs and beautiful illustrations throughout.

All of the dinosaurs in the book are real (with a tiny description at the end) apart from the Giganotsaurus. 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.In fact, it was a year spent working on a square-rigger vessel, combined with his work as a concept artist on the Pirates of the Carribbean computer game, that inspired Jonny to create his highly successful debut picture book, The Pirate Cruncher. Bedtime stories go bonkers in this inventive, subversive version of a traditionally restful night-time tale. I liked the back matter providing information about various dinosaurs and the endpapers with a dinosaur tail and bones. A note on the illustrations: Duddle anthropomorphizes the characters in a way similar to Pixar or Disney movies.

The story was simple, with repetitions, but the expectations were nice and I liked that the book ended with a touch of humor. After a while, his friends leave him to be eaten by a dinosaur bigger than T-Rex, the Gigantosaurus. If you are a keen dino-doodler why not hop over to YouTube and check out Jonny’s brilliant dinosaur drawing tutorials here.

Little dinosaurs Bonehead, Tiny, Fin and Bill, have been warned about the “fierce and wild” Gigantosaurus. Bonehead scares his friends couple of times by screaming that the Gigantosaurus is coming, friends hide, Bonehead laughs at them that he tricked them and tells them they are stupid. We have created this PowerPoint presentation of 21 slides linked to Gigantosaurus which covers the full story with teaching notes and explores a range of factual elements about the story as well as whole class activities.