The Dinosaur That Pooped a Planet!

by Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter, Garry Parsons (Illustrator)

Overview

From Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter of McFly comes a supersonic space adventure filled with planets, poop, and pandemonium!

One boy, one space rocket, one very hungry dinosaur: the ingredients for an explosive space adventure of epic poop-portions! But when Danny realizes he’s forgotten Dino’s lunch box, the very hungry dinosaur eats everything in sight, including their only way home: the rocket! How will Dino get them back home?

Meet Danny and his pet Dinosaur, Dino. No matter what this ravenous reptile ingests, he never keeps it down for long.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481498661
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	09/05/2017
Series:	Dinosaur That Series
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	147,901
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter of the UK group McFly have a shared obsession with poop! After writing songs together for nine years in the band McFly, they wrote The Dinosaur That Pooped a Planet! in the same way that they write their song lyrics. They both live in the UK.

Garry Parsons is the award-winning illustrator of many books, including George’s Secret Key to the Universe, George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt, and George and the Big Bang by Lucy and Stephen Hawking; Billy’s Bucket by Kes Gray; and What’s Cool About School by Kate Agnew. He lives in London. Visit him at GarryParsons.co.uk.

Editorial Reviews

2017-05-10
When Danny takes his voracious pet dinosaur into space but forgets to bring lunch, there's only one way to get back home.Soaring into orbit aboard a rocket stolen from the science museum, Danny's all set for an exciting adventure. Unfortunately, the lack of provisions soon has his humongous companion not only chowing down on the control boards, but sallying out to chomp on the moon, Martian passers-by, "satellites, Saturn, and six supernovas, / Shape-shifting saucers and seven space rovers," until at last even the spacecraft itself has gone down the hatch. How to get back to Earth? Dino to the rescue: "With the feeling of guilt deep down in its gut, / Its brain brewed a plan involving its butt." Propelled by a massive diarrheic stream that looks in the cartoon illustrations like golden cake batter studded with partially digested science gear, off rockets the white lad perched aboard his bulbous buddy…leaving behind a new, brown companion for the moon. Fletcher, Poynter, and Parsons gleefully and unapologetically play to the lowest possible common denominator, from concept to limping verse and (adult) stomach-turning visuals. It's easy to smell a storytime hit, thanks to the combination of unvarnished doggerel and poop in literally astronomical quantities. (Picture book. 4-6)

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