After a while, his friends leave him to be eaten by a dinosaur bigger than T-Rex, the Gigantosaurus. Bedtime stories go bonkers in this inventive, subversive version of a traditionally restful night-time tale. My son loves the story and this book has been a favourite at bedtime for a few nights on the run now. In this dinosaur-themed retelling of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," one little dino offers to watch for predators while his friends play. Jonny Duddle is a bestselling author who has written and illustrated multiple picture books and chapter books for Templar Publishing - including the Waterstones Award-winning bestseller The Pirates Next Door.

I thought the illustrations were very well done, but I just couldn't see Bonehead as being a liar as the other characters saw him. The included little baby Ankylosaurus plush toy measures approx 10cm tall at it longest length and approx 16cm long from it's outstretched hands to the end of it's tail and so it's not a very big plush toy but it is cute and also resembles the star of the book (Bonehead) very well. Create a timeline that shows different periods of history (including the times when dinosaurs were alive).This jolly Jurassic rhyming romp features all of our favourite Giganto pals in a rip-roaring adventure looking to find their nemesis the Gigantosaurus. It is exactly what a child does when picking a book from the shelf and determining whether or not they will choose this over another.

But it's not Gigantosaurus, just Bonehead's idea of a joke, and when he takes the joke a bit too far, he's the one on Gigantosaurus' lunch menu!He thinks it's hilarious to falsely warn the others about approaching enemies, just to watch them scurry and hide for nothing.

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. The story was simple, with repetitions, but the expectations were nice and I liked that the book ended with a touch of humor.There’s also a clever fold out when the ‘Gigantosaurus’ finally appears – the board book being too small to contain him.

The use of repetition will be a winner with the readers and I can imagine the story being recited loudly all over the house. 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.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.