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  • Published: 18 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781787620582
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 32

The Dinosaur that Pooped the Past!




A sparkling new edition of this hilarious, pooptastic trip back in time from the bestselling authors of The Dinosaur that Pooped a Planet!

When playtime on Gran’s old swing sends Danny and Dinosaur 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 Dinosaur make it back to the future with their new dino friends?

A Jurassic classic from the bestselling creators of The Dinosaur that Pooped a Planet!, The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas! and The Dinosaur that Pooped a Princess!

  • Published: 18 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781787620582
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 32

About the authors

Tom Fletcher

Tom Fletcher is one of the UK's bestselling authors for children. He is the creator of The Christmasaurus, which was the biggest debut middle-grade novel of 2016, as well as being one half of the duo behind the Dinosaur That Pooped picture book series, which has sold over a million copies. Tom is also a musician, Guinness World Record holder and vlogger. His YouTube channel has had almost 100 million video views and 630 thousand subscribers. Tom's books have been translated into thirty-two languages and his most recent is called There's A Dragon in Your Book.

Garry Parsons

Garry Parsons is an award-winning illustrator of books for children, including the bestselling The Dinosaur That Pooped series. Garry’s illustrations have accompanied the words of many prestigious picture-book authors, including Kes Gray, Ian Whybrow and Peter Bently. He has also illustrated the popular fiction series The Dragonsitter by Josh Lacey and the space adventure series George’s Secret Key to the Universe by Lucy and Stephen Hawking for slightly older readers. Garry lives in London with his young family and old dog.

Dougie Poynter

Dougie Poynter has been obsessed with dinosaurs ever since visiting the Natural History Museum when he was about three. He is passionate about the natural world and a keen conservationist, working with charities such as WWF and Greenpeace to get harmful products banned and to clean up the planet.

Dougie wrote songs together with Tom Fletcher for years in bands McFly and McBusted; they now write their bestselling Dinosaur that Pooped books in the same way that they write their song lyrics. The books have sold over a million copies!

Praise for The Dinosaur that Pooped the Past!

A work of genius

The Bookseller of The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas

We love the rhyming text, colourful illustrations and (of course) the smelly, explosive eruptions!

The School Run blog

Happily the creators of this series have maintained their high standard and brought us another hilarious story. . . Wondrously inventive and fast-paced, this is another gem.

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