The Great Dinosaur Kidnap
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Cover Story
The March cover of BfK features Dilly the Dinosaur who is 10 years old this year. Her author, Tony Bradman, is the subject of our Authorgraph this month. We are grateful to Reed Books for their help in reproducing this illustration from Susan Hellard's original artwork.
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The Great Dinosaur Kidnap
Piers Sanford
An intelligent re-working of the not unfamiliar theme of the dinosaur egg that is found by a modern child and hatches out. Less jokey than some in this genre, the story raises a few interesting side issues of wild creature conservation and this beast has the added attraction of being able to talk and, apparently, transmit thoughts as well. Juniors from about 7 to 10 would find this absorbing and it could make a good read-aloud serial. (Just one small query ... I wonder if Waterstones paid for the publicity in the text? Surely not.)
