Rex Stone

Rex Stone is the pseudonym used by Working Partners, the creators of Rainbow Magic and other successful series like Animal Ark.

Illustrator Mike Spoor grew up in Northumberland and it was during holidays to the Lake District with his grandparents that he first found a love for drawing. After attending Art College and working as a landscape architect Mike trained as a teacher. He moved to Australia and spent his time flying all over the country to run ceramics workshops. Now, after swapping ceramics for illustration, Mike is back in England and has illustrated many hundreds of books. He considers himself a craftsman rather than a ‘serious’ artist because he is best at drawing scratchy unfinished humorous ideas.

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Featured Books, with extracts by Rex Stone

Dinosaur Cove 22 : Taming the Battling Brutes
Rex Stone
Fast-paced adventure stories in a world of dinosaurs and as every young parent will know kids of 5+ are more often than not obsessed with dinoaurs. The Dinosaur Cove series has truly hit the spot in getting kids into reading. ...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Dinosaur Cove 21 : Saving the Scaly Beast
Rex Stone
The boys are off on a thrilling new adventure in Dinosaur Cove. This time they meet up again with a gentle and friendly pareiasaurus and discover that it is in deadly danger. Will they be able to save it from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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The Awesome Adventure
Rex Stone
In 'Flight of the Winged Serpent' Jamie and Tom have to save their dino friend, Wanna, when an enormous flying quetzalcoatlus mistakes him for one of its chicks. In 'Stampede of the Giant Reptiles' a meteor hits the earth causing...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Dinosaur Cove No. 20 : Shadowing the Wolf-face Reptiles
Rex Stone
The twentieth thrilling new adventure in the best-selling Dinosaur Cove series. This time Jamie, Tom and Wanna help a pack of fearsome carnivorous lycaenops who are starving. Helping creatures who may turn round and eat you is a brave thing...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011
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Dinosaur Cove 19 : Stalking the Fanned Predator
Rex Stone
The friends are on the hunt for a dimetrodon to find out what it used the huge sail on its back for. They discover lots of amazing things about this Permian carnivore, but as they creep around trying to get...
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Dinosaur Cove 18 : Snatched by the Dawn Thief
Rex Stone
Are you ready for the best adventure ever? It's a deafening sunrise in the Triassic, but one sound is louder than everything-the shriek of a pack of eohraptors. These noisy creatures take a shine to Wanna and before the boys...
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Dinosaur Cove 17 : Swarm of the Fanged Lizards
Rex Stone
Are you ready for the best adventure ever? Jamie and Tom are caught up in a terrifying prehistoric storm! As the Triassic landscape floods around them the friends find shelter in a nearby cave. But as their eyes adjust to...
Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Dinosaur Cove 16 : Haunting of the Ghost Runners
Rex Stone
More exciting Dinosaur adventures for Jamie and his best friend Tom in this new story set in the magical Dinosaur Cove. The two boys are used to meeting some unusual creatures but both are truly terrified first by the croaking...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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Dinosaur Cove 15 : Rampage of the Hungry Giants
Rex Stone
An exciting new adventure in Dino World, an amazing and extraordinary secret place where dinosaurs still live. On a new exploration, Jamie and his friends find a blissfully cool oasis full of interesting wildlife in the middle of the hot...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Dinosaur Cove Backpack
Rex Stone
A great summer treat for 5+ year olds.  Packed in a sturdy backpack perfect for little children to carry are four Dinosaur Cove titles, Flight of the Winged Serpent, Stampede of the Giant Reptiles, Rescuing the Plated Lizard and Swimming...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Quantity pack - Released: 01/04/2010
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Dinosaur Cove 14 : Clash of the Monster Crocs
Rex Stone
The dinosaurs in Dinosaur Cove are unusual: they are ALIVE! Jamie, Tom and Wanna can slip back into the Triassic period where they are on the trail of an enormous prehistoric crocodile. The crocodile is a dangerous creature and it...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Dinosaur Cove 13 : Chasing the Tunnelling Trickster
Rex Stone
Another adventure with Jamie and Tom back in a world where dinosaurs really do exist. When a Lystrosaurus snatches Jamie’s backpack the boys find themselves in serious danger. Will they able to retrieve the backpack and get home safely? An...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Dinosaur Cove: The Big Adventure
Rex Stone
Thousands of kids have roared their way through this brilliant series of books featuring dinosaurs of different shapes and sizes.  Here in this 3 books in one edition you’ll get the fright of your life as you open the book...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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Dinosaur Cove: Journey to the Ice Age
Rex Stone
More amazing adventures from the secret world of the dinosaurs that Jamie and Tom have discovered. Jamie and Tom are celebrating Christmas but they are also keen to get back to their secret dinosaur world. When they do, they find...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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Dinosaur Cove 12 : Assault of the Friendly Fiends
Rex Stone
There’s danger all around Tom and Jamie as they explore dinosaur cove in this exciting new adventure. First, they have to deal with the cute looking but sharp toothed Compsagnathus whose carnivore instincts are distinctly threatening but then they have...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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Dinosaur Cove 11 : Finding The Deceptive Dinosaur
Rex Stone
Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening a dinosaur museum in Dinosaur Cove. Jamie expects to find some fossils but...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Dinosaur Cove 10 : Escape From the Fierce Predator
Rex Stone
Another deadly dangerous adventure right in the heart of dinosaur country. Jamie and Tom wake up an Allosaurus, the largest carnivore of the Jurassic period whose long claws on three-fingered hands and large, powerful jaws make it the one of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Dinosaur Cove 9 : Tracking The Gigantic Beast
Rex Stone
Jamie and Tom are back in Jurassic dinosaur world doing a spot of prehistoric bird watching. Suddenly a large face appears among the treetops - it's a huge diplodocus! The boys enjoy watching the enormous beast chewing on the branches,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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Dinosaur Cove 8 : Swimming With The Sea Monster
Rex Stone
Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening a dinosaur museum in Dinosaur Cove. Jamie expects to find some fossils but...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 12/09/2008
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Dinosaur Cove 7 : Rescuing The Plated Lizard
Rex Stone
Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening a dinosaur museum in Dinosaur Cove. Jamie expects to find some fossils but...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/09/2008
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Dinosaur Cove 5 : Catching The Speedy Thief
Rex Stone
Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening a dinosaur museum in Dinosaur Cove. Jamie expects to find some fossils but never expects to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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Dinosaur Cove 6 : Stampede Of The Giant Reptiles
Rex Stone
Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening a dinosaur museum in Dinosaur Cove. Jamie expects to find some fossils but never expects to...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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Dinosaur Cove 1 : Attack Of The Lizard King
Rex Stone
A Richard and Judy Children's Book Club selection 2011 - Reading Together category Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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Dinosaur Cove 2 : Charge Of The Three-horned Monster
Rex Stone
Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening a dinosaur museum in Dinosaur Cove. Jamie expects to find some fossils but...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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Dinosaur Cove 3 : March Of The Armoured Beasts
Rex Stone
Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening a dinosaur museum in Dinosaur Cove. Jamie expects to find some fossils but...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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Dinosaur Cove 4 : Flight Of The Winged Serpent
Rex Stone
Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening a dinosaur museum in Dinosaur Cove. Jamie expects to find some fossils but...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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Snorkelling with the Saw Shark
Rex Stone
No. 23 in the Dinosaur Cove series. Are you ready for the best adventure ever? Jamie and Tom are snorkelling in the Permian sea. There are all sorts of weird creatures to spot and even Wanna's having fun on his trilobite...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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