Product Description

Harry finds some dusty plastic dinosaurs in Nan's attic. He cleans them, finds out their names and takes them everywhere - until, one day, the dinosaurs get lost! The lost property man gets a surprise when Harry proves the dinosaurs are his by calling them over to him.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23849 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

About the Author
Having spent much of his life teaching English and Drama, Ian Whybrow is now a bestselling author. Among his most popular characters are the hugely successful Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs and the much-loved Little Wolf. Ian lives in Harrow, Middlesex. Adrian Reynolds is a hugely talented illustrator who has worked on many picture books,including the wonderful Harry stories and four adventures featuring Pete and Polo. Adrian lives in Cambridge.

Customer Reviews

Deserves its best-selling status
This is a great story with lovely crisp clear pictures. Harry finds dinosaurs in Nan's attic and lovingly rehouses them in a bucket. He learns all their names and they become inseparable. He's very upset therefore to leave them on a train but is happily reunited at the end-osaurus. This is the beginning of the successful series of Harry and the dinosaur adventures, and my children and I love them all. I do think that the 'Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs' series is a slightly acquired taste, a taste that's very definitely worth acquiring. I wasn't hooked the first time I picked one up because there is a little low-level misbehaviour such as the brother-sister squabbling. However, the more you read the book the more you enjoy it exactly because of this: Harry is so real in a pretty normal family (Mum & Nan - there's no Dad in evidence). My children certainly appreciate this. They love it when Harry's breakfast bowl ends up on sister Sam's head in this story, for example, before he is sent to 'settle down'. Plus, from this book they're learning the different dinosaur species and how to pronounce their names. A must-have book for the 2-5s.

A Favourite!
My 2 year old daughter loves this book. She has already started telling us the names of the different dinosaurs and loves hearing the story. On the inside cover are drawings of the different types of dinosaurs with the phonetic pronunciations which is very helpful!

A fun story that has my daughter carring "dinosaurs" in a little bucket as well.

She also loves Harry & the Snow King which she got for Christmas when it was snowy outside.

Simple and endearing ('definitely'!)
This is a charming book about the power of language and the imagination - and friendship. It is also full of long dinosaur names which my four year old finds irresistible! If you want a story that is simple and endearing, which you will enjoy reading as much as your children will enjoy hearing (and which will probably be great fun all round when they try to tackle reading it themselves!) then this is it ('definitely'!)