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If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur

By Colin Jack and Linda Bailey
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A hugely popular dinosaur picture book adventure, now available in paperback for the first time. If you happen to have a dinosaur lying around your living room, and you don't know what to do with it... why don't you use it as a can opener? It... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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A hugely popular dinosaur picture book adventure, now available in paperback for the first time.

If you happen to have a dinosaur lying around your living room, and you don't know what to do with it... why don't you use it as a can opener? It will make a terrific nutcracker too!

There are oodles of uses for a dinosaur—from a fine umbrella to an excellent kite and a dandy pillow, not to mention a reliable burglar alarm and the perfect excuse to forget your homework.

This delightfully absurd exploration of the domestic uses of dinosaurs—and the things dinos just aren't good for at all—is guaranteed to tickle funny bones and spark imaginations.

If you read carefully, you'll learn how to make your dinosaur last a very long time.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781774887707

Publisher: Tundra Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 April 2025

Country: Canada

Imprint: Tundra Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 266.0mm

Height: 266.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 40

Collections

Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Colin Jack Linda Bailey Penguin Books

About the Author

Award-winning author LINDA BAILEY has written more than twenty books for children in a number of different genres, including the best-selling Stanley-the-dog series, The Farm Team, the Stevie Diamond Mysteries, the Good Times Travel Agency series, and most recently, When Santa Was a Baby and Seven Dead Pirates. Known for her wonderful sense of humor, Linda has garnered a long list of honors in both Canada and the United States, such as the Blue Spruce Award, the Atlantic Provinces Hackmatack Award, the Arthur Ellis (Crime Writers of Canada), the California Young Reader Medal and the Georgia Storybook Award. COLIN JACK is the incredibly talented illustrator of several books for children, including the Galaxy Zack series, Toads on Toast (also with Linda Bailey), and 1 Zany Zoo. He also works as a story artist and character designer at Dreamworks and has been involved in such productions as Hotel Transylvania, Grossology and Ed, Edd n Eddy.

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