The Dinosaur That Pooped the Past!

by Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter, Garry Parsons (Illustrator)

Overview

Dinosaurs Love Underpants meets Walter the Farting Dog, Everyone Poops, and Mel Brooks’s movies in the latest Dinosaur That Pooped story by Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter of the English pop punk group McFly.

When Danny and Dinosaur accidentally go back through history on a time-travelling swing, they zoom right past the Romans, Egyptians, and Greeks to the Jurassic Era, where they meet some new dino friends. But soon there’s a rumbling noise...a volcano is about to erupt! Can Dinosaur save the day by pooping them back to the future?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481498685
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	03/13/2018
Series:	The Dinosaur That
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	178,649
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Garry Parsons is the award-winning illustrator of many books, including George’s Secret Key to the Universe, George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt, George and the Big Bang, George and the Unbreakable Code, and George and the Blue Moon by Lucy and Stephen Hawking; Billy’s Bucket by Kes Gray; and What’s Cool About School by Kate Agnew. He lives in London. Visit him at GarryParsons.co.uk.

Editorial Reviews

2017-11-22
Fresh (if that's the word) from excretory adventures in outer space (see The Dinosaur That Pooped a Planet, 2017), Danny and his craptastic dino companion undertake further effluvial exploits in the Jurassic.Having discovered that the swing in Granny's yard is a time machine, the white boy and the dino find themselves in deep soup when it breaks—stranding them in the distant past right next to an erupting volcano. With help from a trio of mischievous tykes dubbed "Dino Dudes A, B, and C," the very images of pop-eyed, primary-colored cuteness in the cartoon illustrations, repairs are made…but how to get the required push? Having previously chowed down on Granny's broccoli eggs and Brussels sprouts, it's time for Dinosaur to do his thing: "The poop came out fast; it had broccoli power, / And launched them to eighty-eight miles per hour." Back through the eras they fly ("The Romans and Trojans were covered in poop; / They all got a taste of Gran's broccoli soup"), with the Dudes tagging along, to arrive back at Gran's just in time for slices of, yes, broccoli cake. Parsons renders the prehistoric lava with an evocatively red and glutinous look, and if the gusher that flows out of Dinosaur's butt is counterintuitively orange, it's still a revolting sight. That the rhyme seems often to be in thrall to tortured scansion is probably a minor consideration.Will doubtless leave young readers and viewers flushed with excitement. (Picture book. 4-6)

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