ANDREAE, GILES CAPTAIN FLINN & THE PIRATE DINOSAURS
Format:Paperback
Pagination:32 pages, chiefly col. ill
Dimensions:289 x 216 mm, 206 grams
This is Giles Andreae and Russell Ayto's super-fun "Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs". 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! Giles Andreae is an award-winning children's author and has written both fiction titles and best-selling picture books. His picture book, "The Lion Who Wanted to Dance", won The Federation of Children's Book Award in the best picture book category in 1998. However, he is probably most famous as the creator of the phenomenally successful Purple Ronnie, Britain's favourite stickman.
