Gigantosaurus

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Perhaps one of the mightiest of those books (although small in stature) is Gigantosaurus Dino-Spot written and illustrated by No 1 Best-selling author and Illustrator Jonny Duddle and based on Jonny’s best-selling picture book Gigantosaurus.

So now comes the nonsensical part for me. When the Gigantosaurus finally comes, the little dinosaurs don't believe Bonehead and they don't run yet somehow it's Bonehead who gets eaten.

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is a bumper year for Arena Illustration with no less than 4 of our contributors featuring on this year’s collection of World Book Day Books. It was therefore a wonderful surprise to come across something as good as The Gruffalo but with Dinosaurs: Gigantosaurus by Jonny Duddle (what a fabulous name for a children’s author!). Four little dinosaurs are playing outside, but their mothers have warned them to watch out for the Gigantosaurus. One of the little ones decides it is funny to continually call out false alarms, but when the real Gigantosaurus comes around, he's almost toast.

The resource have been differentiated 6 ways so have a look to see which one would suit your Year 1 children best So if you have a child that loves being read to every night before bed, is dinosaur mad, and wants the same book over and over and over again, then this book won’t go extinct too soon! Your class must complete the sentences by adding in the words or the pictures to complete the sentences. Wonderfully characterised and atmospheric illustrations complement humorous rhyming text, in a story that will appeal to young dinosaur-lovers. Ideal for reading to groups as plenty of repetition will encourage youngsters to join in. In Season 1, our heroes made some awesome discoveries during their adventures and games around Cretacia: indestructible bubbles, yummy flowers, an amazing playground in a cave, a stream in the middle of the desert, a basketball court made of carnivorous plants, an aurora borealis, and more!

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It was a translation so I was surprised that it's still a rhyming book. Then I was confused as the rhyming was very heavy-handed. All little dinosaurs are warned by their mums to beware the Gigantosaurus who has enormous teeth and claws and simply can't wait to crunch you for his lunch. All of the dinosaurs in the book are real (with a tiny description at the end) apart from the Giganotsaurus. All young dinosaurs are warned about the scary Gigantosaurus. So Bonehead volunteers to be the dino-kids lookout. Unfortunately, he is the original boy-dinosaur who cried wolf, or in this case, Gigantosaurus! Finally, Bonehead's friends refuse to believe his warnings and the Gigantosaurus really turns up. Compare the sizes of different dinosaurs. Use our Dinosaur Size Comparison Posters and How Big were the Dinosaurs? Banner to help.

I powered through, explaining what's going on along the way, soon realizing it's The Boy Who Cried Wolf retold in a nonsensical way. Look at the pattern of rhyming words in the story. Can you make your own collection of rhyming words? This activity helps your Year 1 class understand and process the information behind the words they are reading. I could stop my review here with "pictures are ok, story makes no sense, did not like it" but I feel that this is a bad book and I will explain my 1 star rating below.An interactive PowerPoint based on the book by Jonny Duddle. A set of seven workshhets involving work on rhyme, capitalisation, writing questions, big/small vocabulary, sequencing words in muddled sentences, picture sequencing and caption writing. Includes Smartbook notebook files which support the sequencing and caption writing exercises. And then it turns out he wasn't eaten after all and he learned his lesson. I don't know what lesson it was supposed to be. Three cute dinosaurs and one ugly dinosaur subtly named Bonehead are warned by their parents to avoid the Gigantosaurus. All we’ve heard about for at least the last decade is The Gruffalo (I know it was first published in 1999, but as with most things it took numerous years to become a household word). It certainly is an outstanding children’s book in its own right. Having a small boy (our very own Gruffalo’s Child), my husband and I can confidently recite the book from cover to cover (as can our son, an avid reader who has already loved several copies to death). Jonny Duddle beautifully sums this up himself in his dedications “….and don’t listen to Boneheads!”

As a rule, the problem with rhythmic stories for children – which you notice when you’re reading them out loud over and over again – is that you often find that you want to add or remove words to retain a more poetic flow than the original. The Gruffalo was one of the only books I’ve read where that isn’t the case, though unfortunately that level of attention wasn’t repeated in all the other books by Julia Donaldson. Gigantosaurus, however, flows brilliantly, almost perfectly. The repeated segments are catchy and easy for you and your child to remember, for example:When one of the gang, Bonehead, offers to act as lookout so the others can play safely, they are very grateful - especially when he raises the alarm, shouting that Gigantosaurus is on his way. 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! 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.