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The Dinosaur’s Packed Lunch

by

Jacqueline Wilson

Illustrated by Nick Sharratt

Dinah is having a bad day – nothing seems to be going right: so far she’s made her Dad cross and argued with her best friend. Even a class trip to the museum doesn’t cheer Dinah up, it just makes her feel sad that unlike her classmates, she doesn’t have a Mum to make her a delicious packed lunch.


However, when a disconsolate Dinah wanders into the museum’s dinosaur room, her day is transformed by an encounter with a friendly iguanodon who presents her with a bottle of magical dinosaur juice...


This simply-written book is aimed at children who are learning to read and is enlivened by Nick Sharratt’s characteristically humorous illustrations. This may well be the first of many Jacqueline Wilson books read by children as they embark upon their reading journey.

 

Publisher: Corgi Pups

  • Jacqueline Wilson

    Children's Laureate 2005-2007
    Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, and spent her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, where she still lives today. She started her writing career as a teenage journalist with D.C. Thompson, writing for the teenage magazine Jackie which was named after her. Today her popular books for children have sold millions of copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages.

     

    Jacqueline's books include The Story of Tracy Beaker, which has become a hugely successful BBC TV series; Girls in Love, which together with its two sequels was filmed for ITV television; and Double Act, which she adapted for Channel 4 and which won the Royal TV Society's Best Children's Fiction Award. As the fourth Children's Laureate (2005-2007) she promoted the importance of sharing books, and reading aloud together.

    Visit Jacqueline's website

     

     

    http://www.jacquelinewilson.co.uk
    Jacqueline Wilson
    Jacqueline Wilson

  • Nick Sharratt

    Nick liked drawing from an early age. 'When I was nine,' he says, 'a picture that I'd drawn at school was pinned up in the hall, and the husband of one of the teachers saw it and offered me five pounds to do a similar picture for him. That's when I decided I was going to be a professional artist one day! I nearly always drew in felt tip pens then, and I liked drawing big crowd scenes. I'd start in the bottom left-hand corner of the paper and just let the picture grow, telling myself stories about each of the characters in turn as I drew them.'

    Nick Sharratt
    Nick Sharratt

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