Books

The Dirty Great Dinosaur

Martin Waddell, Author

Leonie Lord, Illustrator

Paperback

Imprint: Orchard Books

Publication date: September 3, 2009

Category: Picture books

ISBN: 9781408303597

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Grrrrrr! Look out! Here comes the Dirty Great Dinosaur . . .

It’s huge! It’s hungry! It’s the DIRTY GREAT DINOSAUR! He’s going to eat anything in his way!

Only Hal (and his little dog Billy) can stop the hungry beastie, because they know just how to calm that Dirty Great Dinosaur down . . .

Let Hal and Billy show you how to calmly deal with temper tantrums of MONSTROUS proportions.

An exciting and action-packed story written by world-renowned storyteller, Martin Waddell, brilliantly illustrated by Leonie Lord.

The perfect gift for dinosaur lovers everywhere.

Reviews

Lots of quirky illustrations.

Baby London

Brilliant fun to read aloud.

Cork Evening Echo

A stompingly impressive creation.

School Librarian

A very funny and cleverly written book.

Bournemouth Daily Echo

'The Stomping, hungry dinosaur who crashes through the pages of this strikingly illustrated book was an instant hit in our house. It's funny, a bit of silly and fast moving.'

Waterstone's Books Quarterly

Martin Waddell

Martin Waddell is known and respected the world over for his incredible storytelling. Martin has won the Smarties Prize twice and was presented with the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children’s literature. For Orchard, Martin has written the fun, action-packed bestseller ‘The Dirty Great Dinosaur’ and its sequel ‘The Super Swooper Dinosaur’ (both illustrated by Leonie Lord), and two wonderful story collections ‘The Orchard Book of Goblins, Ghouls and Ghosts’ (illustrated by Tony Ross) and ‘The Orchard Book of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales’ (illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark). Martin lives in Northern Ireland.

Leonie Lord

Leonie Lord grew up in Gloucestershire and studied illustration at Central St Martins College, London.
Since graduating she has worked in various different areas of illustration but has mainly produced editorial work, contributing regularly for newspapers such as The Sunday Telegraph and The Guardian.

Leonie has a young family, which has recently renewed her love of children’s books, inspiring a world in which anything and everything is possible and probably about to happen any minute. This has led her to illustrate for children herself; The Dirty Great Dinosaur being her first illustrated book for children.

After spells in London and Sydney, Leonie now lives in Cheltenham in an upside-down house with her husband and two children.