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Paperback64 pages
Interest Age: 5+
Illustrated By
Susan HellardPublisher
Mammoth an imprint of Egmont Childrens BooksPublication date
1st August 2001ISBN
9780749746827Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Dilly the Dinosaur
Written by:
Tony Bradman
Illustrated by:
Susan Hellard
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Dilly the Dinosaur by Tony BradmanThese four stories introduce Dilly, the world's naughtiest dinosaur. First, he decides to hate water and vows never to wash again, until his friend Dixie objects to the very smelly dinosaur he becomes. Then, Dilly lets loose his ear-splitting super-scream which makes his father have a disaster with his sister's birthday cake, but things get even messier when Dilly tries to make a replacement. Dilly gets very confused one day, waiting for it to rain cats and dogs, and finally makes his own very characteristic contribution to the family's house-painting day!
About The Author
Tony Bradman was born in 1954 (not during the Jurassic era, as his children have been known to claim). He went to school in London, and then Cambridge University. After university he worked in the music press, then became Deputy Editor of Parents magazine, and began reviewing children’s books. He had his first book for children published in 1985 and became a full-time author in 1987.
He is perhaps best known in the UK for his Dilly the Dinosaur stories. His books have sold more than two million copies worldwide and he has been published in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain and Japan amongst others.
Tony loves films and popular culture. He lives in Beckenham, Kent with his wife Sally and their three children Emma, Helen and Thomas and Rufus the cat.
TONY BRADMAN Q&A:
If you were a Viking warrior, what would your name be? And what about your battle cry?
I
love Viking warrior names – my favourites are Erik Bloodaxe, Ivar The
Boneless and of course, Harald Hardnut. I’d like my name to be exciting
too! But the Vikings had a great sense of humour, and I’m not very
tall, so I’d expect they would call me stumpy or something like that.
My battle cry would be easy – “Yaaaaaaagggghhh”
Which of the places in the book would you most like to visit: Russia, Norway or Constantinople? Why?
I’d
like to visit them all. Constantinople is now called Istanbul, and it’s
an ancient city full of interesting things. I studied Russian at school
and so I’d love to visit places like Novogorod and Kiev. And in fact,
I’ve just booked up to go to Oslo, capital of Norway – and the first
place I’ll visit is the Viking Ship Museum….
If you were a
Viking warrior, and could have any person from history/film/books in
your gang – who would you choose? And Why? What would the gang be
called?
I’d pick all the great Viking warriors – Harald
Hardnut, Erik Bloodaxe, the Godwin brothers Tostig and Harold, maybe
Thor the Norse God, Beowulf, Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Boromir and
Faramir from Lord of the Rings and loads of others. What would we be
called? Why The Cool Vikings, of course!
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