Gigantosaurus

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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. Wonderfully characterised and atmospheric illustrations complement humorous rhyming text, in a story that will appeal to young dinosaur-lovers. When the actual Gigantosaurus does show up, Bonehead is nearly killed and the other dinos don't seem all too concerned about him based on his supposed lies. 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.

Jonny Duddle has been a concept artist for Aardman Animations and created fantastic illustrations for fiction and novelty books, including ALIENOLOGY. on the edge of the jungle, where the herbivores grazed, four little dinosaurs spent their days playing in the Cretaceous sun, following tracks and having fun. Please DO NOT view the PowerPoint in PowerPoint viewer, view it as a SLIDESHOW, otherwise it will not be interactive. 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. Watch this time-lapse video of the author creating illustrations for covers of the Harry Potter books.

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.

A note on the illustrations: Duddle anthropomorphizes the characters in a way similar to Pixar or Disney movies. 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. There’s also a clever fold out when the ‘Gigantosaurus’ finally appears – the board book being too small to contain him.Although their dinosaur elders warn four youngsters about the fierce Gingantosaurus, they still enjoy playing. A wonderful surprise is the fantastic fold out in the middle of the book – children will be absolutely tickled! 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. In fact, it was a year spent working on a square-rigger vessel, combined with his work as a concept artist on the Pirates of the Carribbean computer game, that inspired Jonny to create his highly successful debut picture book, The Pirate Cruncher. In this dinosaur-themed retelling of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," one little dino offers to watch for predators while his friends play.

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).Like The Boy who Cried Wolf, the theme to the story shares the caution of even when a liar is telling the truth, they are unlikely to be believed. 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. On the edge of the page, there are clues as to what dino is really coming toward them which is fun for little ones to point out. 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's still a lazy retelling of The Boy Who Cried Wolf but like that it would at least make sense as a story.

If you are a keen dino-doodler why not hop over to YouTube and check out Jonny’s brilliant dinosaur drawing tutorials here. The story was like a dinosaur spin off of the boy who cried wolf, but everything worked out in the end. This activity helps your Year 1 class understand and process the information behind the words they are reading. After a while, his friends leave him to be eaten by a dinosaur bigger than T-Rex, the Gigantosaurus. In season 3, our four heroes will discover the joys of sharing their daily life with their little brothers and sisters who are none other than the 4 baby dinos discovered in season 2.It is a good contemporary version on the boy who cried wolf, but it lacks an ending that felt complete. Bedtime stories go bonkers in this inventive, subversive version of a traditionally restful night-time tale. Little dinosaurs Bonehead, Tiny, Fin and Bill, have been warned about the “fierce and wild” Gigantosaurus. I like the back of the book that tells about the different dinosaurs and also about the true Giganotosaurus (yes that's how you spell it).