From engaging non-fiction that explores the history of dinosaurs, uncovering what life was like millions of years ago, to funny picture books introducing little ones to dino characters, these books are perfect for all dino-obsessed young readers aged 0-12 and beyond!
When playtime on Gran’s old swing sends Danny and Dino accidentally looping back through time to the Jurassic age, there’s no knowing what might happen.
Especially when the swing breaks and there’s the rumble of a volcano ready to erupt! Can Danny and Dino make it back to the future with their new dino friends?
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
A love letter to learning and the power of numbers from exciting talents, Rashmi Sirdeshpande and Diane Ewen.
A laugh-out-loud 'what if . . .?' adventure that celebrates maths being fun in this riotous read.
If a Stegosaurus knew how to do sums - well, what would happen? Maybe she'd learn to code, to invent, to fly to the moon!
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
The Christmasaurus wants more than anything to be able to fly, and help pull Santa's sleigh across the sky on Christmas Eve. But flying turns out to be much harder than he thought, even with Santa's help!
One special Christmas, however, he falls down a chimney and meets a dinosaur-obsessed little boy who teaches him the magic of believing...
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
In a dark dark street
In this FUNNYBONES story, the Big Skeleton and the Little Skeleton are being chased by dinosaurs... in their dreams!
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
It's Harry's first day at school. He and his dinosaurs are very excited and perhaps a little bit nervous. But when Harry's dinosaur friends don't join him in the classroom, Harry's not so sure he's going to like school, but the dinosaurs come to the rescue and Harry and his new friend learn just how much fun school can really be!
The ideal book to prevent first-day-at-school nerves.
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
Greg the Sausage Roll has been catapulted into a prehistoric world where dinosaurs rule! Greg is on a mission to get his hands on a T-Rex tooth - but the dinos are hungry for a tasty sausage-roll snack!
Get ready for an action-packed jurassic sausage-roll blockbuster.
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
Dylan is a pretty ordinary kid. Except for one thing: when he sneezes, he turns into a dinosaur! Usually turning into a dinosaur is great fun, but when Dylan catches his first cold a week before Christmas, his sneezes cause one disaster after another until it starts to look a lot like Christmas might be ruined!
Will Dylan learn to love his dino-sneezes in time to save the day?
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
ROOOAAAARRRR! Who's stomping around your book? It's a dinosaur! She's bored, and she's making a LOT of noise! Can you help her find some friends? But make sure to keep everyone quiet or we might wake up… the BIG DINOSAUR!
This playful interactive story helps little ones to learn about inside and outside voices, as they teach Dinosaur when to be quiet… and when to be LOUD!
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
Flinn is at school looking in the art cupboard for some coloured pens to finish off his dinosaur drawing when he stumbles upon Captain Stubble, a real live Pirate Captain! He tells Flinn that his ship, the Acorn, has been stolen and that he needs Flinn to help him rescue it back. Stubble makes Flinn the captain and they sail away on an old pirate ship...they finally find the Acorn but, to their horror, realise it's been stolen by PIRATE DINOSAURS!
Captain Flinn and his crew attack the dinosaurs and, after much fighting, seize control of the ship once more. Flinn and his friends then sail back to the harbour clambering through the boatshed door and back into the art cupboard without the teacher even noticing they've been gone!
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
Dino Dad
What if YOUR dad was a dinosaur? Hi, I'm Ruby! And I've got a big secret... Everyone thinks my dad is an amazing dinosaur expert at our local museum. And he totally is! But he's also... a POOPA! And so am I!
What's a POOPA? Well, it means he's a Protector Of Our Prehistoric Allies. When me and Dad touch his special, magic ammonite shell, we travel to an incredible island, full of dinosaurs. And when we go there, we turn into dinosaurs too! We have so many amazing adventures... And I can't wait for you to join us!
Recommended reading age: 6-8 years old
Life
From tiny dots of microscopic bacteria to enormous dinosaurs, through Ice Ages and the gallop of evolution, Elli Woollard's lyrical text is a pitch-perfect blend of storytelling, science and wonder.
Life
Recommended reading age: 6-8 years old
Boone School is in trouble! Taps dripping slime, classrooms full of bugs and lots of other disasters mean Principle Bruno might lose his job.
Then Tuck and Tina discover that a masked troublemaker is causing mischief, just so he can take over the school and steal rare dinosaur bones buried beneath the building! Cue a high-speed chase across land, sea and air. . . but can the two mice track down the culprit and save the day?
Recommended reading age: 6-8 years old
The terrible Tyrannosaurus rex is scaring all the dinosaur families that live on the Great Plain. Nosy, the little pterodactyl, and his great friend Banty, the apatosaurus, agree that T. rex has got to be stopped. But how?
Recommended reading age: 6-8 years old
Mary Anning was a fossil hunter, scouring the cliffs and seashores of Lyme Regis for strange rocks and shells. Monstrous marine reptiles and dinosaurs had once reigned the land and seas here millions of years ago, disappearing only to leave mysterious traces for humans to puzzle over. Mary's fossils paved the way for modern palaeontology and helped to piece together a picture of how the dinosaurs lived and evolved. Little did she know that 200 years later we would still be talking about her amazing discoveries and how she influenced our understanding of the history of the earth.
Beautifully illustrated by brand-new talent Kate Winter, with stunning panoramic fold-out pages, this is a book to treasure and to read again and again, perfect for all fans of natural history and curious young explorers.
Recommended reading age: 9+ years old
Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and that's exactly what he finds when he meets the eccentric Professor Challenger - an adventure that leads Malone and his three companions deep into the Amazon jungle, to a lost world where dinosaurs roam free.
Rediscover this best-loved children's story in this Puffin Classics edition.
Recommended reading age: 9+ years old
Otherlands
Travel millions of years into the past, to when dinosaurs and woolly mammoths roamed the earth. Find out how plants and trees and creatures great and small shared a world very different from our own. And uncover the footprints they left behind...
Starting with the last ice age and ending when the very first animals started to swim and hunt, this illustrated journey back through time is adapted from the bestselling Otherlands
Recommended reading age: 9+ years old
Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Get whisked back in time in the magic tree house with Jack and Annie! Where did the tree house come from?
Before Jack and Annie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home. Can they do it before dark . . . ? Or will they become a dinosaur's dinner?
Recommended reading age: 9+ years old
