Ten Terrible Dinosaurs

Macmillan Children's Books publish Ten Terrible Dinosaurs!

Ten Terrible Dinosaurs by Paul Stickland, published by Macmillan Children's Books 2017

The wonderful Macmillan Children's Books have just published a brand new remastered 2017 edition of my children's dinosaur picture book, Ten Terrible Dinosaurs.

I'm really pleased to see this book back in print as part of the wonderful new World of Dinosaur Roar!
Originally created as a companion book for the bestselling Dinosaur Roar! which Macmillan Children's Books are publishing in many exciting new formats.

Writing Ten Terrible Dinosaurs

I wrote the text for this book sitting on another publisher's stand at the 1996 Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy.
I spent many years visiting and working at Bologna and the atmosphere and company of colleagues from all over the world of children's books was always a stimulating environment for an author and illustrator.
Ten Terrible Dinosaurs was one of those lucky texts that just arrived, fully formed, all I had to do was write it down. Remarkably little editing and that doesn't often happen...
The same thing happened with One Bear One Dog and also Bears. I'd love to know how that works...
Ten Terrible Dinosaurs is a crazy colourful children's counting book but a counting book in reverse.
The simple story follows a bunch of naughty dinosaurs, as their mischievous antics and silly japes slowly diminishes their numbers until we're left with just one weary one...
...before his friends live up to their name once again!

Drawing Ten Terrible Dinosaurs

I had great fun drawing and painting all those naughty dinosaurs! 

It was one of those rare books where I sat down with a my favourite pencil and a miniature paper dummy of the book and started drawing on page one. 

I then drew every single spread, in order, in one fell swoop. Again, that very rarely happens!

Usually, I have to make some changes to the characters as I progress through the book but this time I started off with the full cast of characters on page one and for some reason it went right first time. Love it when that happens! 

I wanted to the book to be as bouncy and rhythmic as possible to match the rhyming text, so it was really important to get as much energy into this cast of silly saurians. It was a good day and the whole lot just flowed out and onto the pages of this little paper book.

The miniature paper dummy has 48 pages, hand sewn, drawn in pencil and only 105mm x 148mm

Here are all the rough drawings for Ten Terrible Dinosaurs

Reviews of Ten Terrible Dinosaurs:

 Winner of the Practical Parenting Best Book Award
"..the whole book has an exciting, energetic pace."
"..a funny and beautiful picture book that will make learning to count a very pleasurable task." 100 Best Books
"..an ingenious and entertaining way of introducing counting and subtraction..uproariously funny.." Early Years Educator
"What a welcome return of the wonderfully exuberant dinosaurs so much enjoyed in Dinosaur Roar! and Swamp Stomp... the text is terrific, full of rhyme and rhythm and delicious words to talk about.." Child Education
"..a must.." Parent Magazine

"This is a welcome reissue of a counting down, rhyming dinosaur romp and a companion volume to Dinosaur Roar. The vividly coloured creatures get up to all manner of lively, child-like activities such as dancing, stuffing themselves, playing tricks and more, as one by one they exit or are eliminated from the line-up (Not too sure about one sent off for being ‘too spiky’ what’s wrong with being different?) until just one dozing dinosaur remains. But then …
Great fun, with counting opportunities aplenty and perhaps even better, a chance to let rip with that grand finale."  Red Reading Hub

Dinosaur Roar! and Ten Terrible Dinosaurs

Cover of Paul Stickland's Ten Terrible Dinosaurs

by Paul Stickland

Macmillan Children's New Dinosaur Roar! Board Book

Wow! The most fantastic board book version of the children's classic dinosaur picture book, Dinosaur Roar! has just hit the shelves! Macmillan Children's Books have just published the most wonderful new edition.

I love beautifully produced books. Where the book feels so good in the hand and is a joy to use, smooth matt lamination with wonderful tactile elements on the cover. Toddlers and children are going to love these. I can't stop touching my copies. It's rare for a board book to be perfect bound, so I'm really delighted with these glorious books for the pre-schoolers.
Available in your local independent bookstore!
Children will be roaring for more!

Free Dinosaur Roar Masks for Kids

Free Printable Dinosaur Roar Masks!

Here are a set of Free Dinosaur Roar Mask Templates for you to download and print out for your own little monsters.  Colour or Black & White!
Click on the roaring and snapping colour Dinosaur Roar mask below to download the two parts, which you can then print out onto a sheet of A4 card to create your very own roaring Dinosaur Roar! mask for kids.
Easily cut out and fold as shown below. Use a brass paper fastener to fix the two halves together as shown.
Click here for a Free Printable COLOUR Dinosaur Roar! Mask.

TOP DINOSAUR MASK TIP! 

* Printing on A4 paper will make a great fun dinosaur mask for children up to about 7 years old.
* Printing out on A3 paper will make a funny dinosaur mask for older children or adults!

Want a Free Printable black and white Dinosaur Roar! Mask to colour in yourself?
Click on the dinosaur mask outline below to download a free black and white Dinosaur Roar! mask for kids.

 

Encourage your children to colour their dinosaur mask in fantastic fun colours, dinosaurs don't have to be brown or grey! Have fun, make them spotty, stripy, splotchy like mine, scratchy, hairy, anything you fancy!

If you want to see how I coloured in the dinosaurs in Dinosaur Roar! then head on over to the Dinosaur Roar! Page on my website.

This is what our house looks like when I'm designing dinosaur masks, well, most of the time really!

Dinosaur Roar! Mask design ©PaulStickland

Dinosaur Roar! ©Nurture Rights

How to Build a Dinosaur!

When the amazing team at Seven Stories asked me to build a giant Dinosaur Roar! for their Creation Station, how could I say no?!
I was delighted to be invited to be Artist in Residence at The National Centre for Children's Books, Seven Stories in Newcastle in July 2014. Seven Stories is the most amazing place to visit if you, like me, love children's books. Everything in the building is designed to foster a love for children's books and children's literature.
Wonderful exhibitions featuring the world's best children's book illustrators and authors work, the most incredible children's bookshop and a busy program of events to delight the lucky children that live within reach. What a resource, the children of the Noth East are very lucky indeed.

Seven Stories' dedicated, friendly and resourceful staff really pulled out the stops to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Dinosaur Roar! I was really honoured.
So when Lorna Duncanson emailed me suggesting that I build a giant dinosaur during my time there, I leapt at the chance!

New Dinosaur Roar! Website

Great news, the new Dinosaur Roar Website is up and running!

Dinosaur games, dinosaur competitions and all the latest Dinosaur Roar News!

On the new Dinosaur Roar Website we have a wonderful collection of Free Dinosaur Roar Colouring Pages. Every single page of Dinosaur Roar! ready for your kids to colour in. Follow my colouring with inks or try out your own colour schemes, crazy colourful dinosaurs!

 13 Free Dinosaur Roar Acitivities for kids to download and print!

Visit DinosaurRoar.com

Dinosaur Roar iPad and iPhone App!

Great news, the brilliant team at +Immediate Media Co have released...

The Dinosaur Roar App for iPad and iPhone!

Listen, Read, Record, Colour, Name and ROAR!

Kids just love dinosaurs, they seem to be hard wired for it!
There are a lot of dinosaur apps for kids out there but this is the Dinosaur Roar app for kids!

The World of Dinosaur Roar welcome's a great new kid's dinosaur app for iPad and iPhone.
Buy it here!

It's been great fun seeing the development of this app. My four year old daughter means that I have struggled to keep it out of her grasp but what better way to test an app designed for kids and preschool children.
Simple fun here. The designers at Immediate Media have done a great job of distilling the things that kids love about Dinosaur Roar! So we have a strong emphasis on storytelling. Listen to the story read by a delightful cast or read the story. The favourite feature in this household is recording your own reading of Dinosaur Roar! We have been helpless with laughter at our own silly, childish and very possibly rude version of the text! Brilliant fun, kid's apps aren't usually that funny.
I love the idea of getting your favourite  dinosaur  Grampa or Granny to read the text for their favourite grandson or daughter, saving it for later, great feature.

Then there are some great colouring pages, which you could easily print out to colour in and have fun with. There's a dinosaur name generator too. More details below:

"Inspired by the best-selling picture book, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul and Henrietta Stickland, the new Dinosaur Roar! app, created by Immediate Media Co, is a must for all young dinosaur fans.
Using Paul Stickland’s original designs and Henrietta Stickland’s wonderful rhyming text, the app is aimed at 2-4 year olds and incorporates different storytelling functions, creative colouring options, as well as a fun ‘shake and name’ device. Children can watch, hear, colour in and touch their favourite dinosaurs as they stomp, shuffle, run, chomp, blink, squeak and roar their way across the screen.
Storytelling options let you listen to the story narrated by a child’s voice, or alternatively you can read the story yourself – with the option to record and save – while the innovative scrolling function takes you on a continuous journey through the dinosaurs’ world.
For colouring fun, simply select your favourite dinosaur from the menu, then using your fingers to add colours and patterns, you can recreate the original, or be as creative and colourful as you like. A save function allows you to preserve your mini-masterpiece, plus each dinosaur can be coloured in again and again (and again)!
Sara Oldham, Editor, Pre-School Titles, Immediate, said: “I'm a huge fan of the Dinosaur Roar! picture book, which has been delighting children for 20 years. It has been a real privilege to work with the book's illustrator, Paul Stickland, to bring his beautiful paintings to life. We're sure young fans will be thrilled to have this playful family of dinosaurs at their fingertips. And with educational benefits that include reading, writing, creativity, co-ordination, maths and emotional learning, we're sure parents will love it too."
Peter Curtis, Director, Nurture Rights, added: “The Dinosaur Roar! app is a perfect companion to the much loved picture book by Paul and Henrietta Stickland. It’s wonderful to see that the book, that has shaped so many young children’s early reading years, has now been reinvented for a new generation. Immediate have brought the book to life beautifully and kids will be roaring for more!"
The classic picture book Dinosaur Roar! by Paul and Henrietta Stickland, was first published in the UK in 1994 and has become a publishing phenomenon, with sales of more than five million books worldwide. As this iconic children’s title marks its 20^th anniversary, owners Nurture Rights have appointed Penguin Random House as the new publishers, and have also teamed up with the Natural History Museum to develop and market the Dinosaur Roar! brand. Dinosaur Roar! is the inspiration for a major new project for pre-schoolers being developed by Nurture Rights, in association with the Natural History Museum, with a percentage of royalties from sales of the app going to support the work of the museum."

The Dinosaur Roar! iOS app for iPad and iPhone is priced at £1.99 in the UK and available worldwide for download from iTunes 

Visit the New Dinosaur Roar Website!

Buy Dinosaur Roar!

Dinosaur Roar is 20!

To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of this bestselling children's dinosaur picture book, here are the new paperback and hardback editions of Dinosaur Roar! in association with the wonderful Natural History Museum in London!
The best place to buy Dinosaur Roar! is at your local independent bookshop but if you can't get to one, the links below will take you to Amazon UK.

Buy Dinosaur Roar - Paperback Edition

Buy Dinosaur Roar - Hardback Edition

As for The Natural History Museum... I think that my many visits to The Natural History Nuseum are what sparked off my interest in dinosaurs and all of natural life on this planet. I would be taken up there in my school holidays by my elderly Aunt Ida, who delighted in showing me all the wonders of the museum. Little did I know that many years later, I would become an author and illustrator and that my books would be published in association with this wonderful museum. I am truly honoured.

Dinosaur Roar now has a brand new website DinosaurRoar.com which will soon to be full of wonderful activities and crafts for preschool dinosaur lovers!

You can follow Dinosaur Roar on Twitter @DinosaurRoar

Dinosaur Roar on Pinterest
Dinosaur Roar on Facebook

Dinosaur Roar Jigsaws and Games by Paul Lamond

Just in, these fabulous new Dinosaur Roar! Jigsaws, Dinosaur Roar Floor Puzzles and Dinosaur Roar Memory Games from top UK Toy Company, Paul Lamond. Click on any of the links or images to purchase these great new dinosaur games from Amazon UK.

A great simple Dinosaur Memory Game featuring your favourite Dinosaur Roar Characters!

Ideal for Dinosaur Mad Toddlers from Three Years old upwards. 

Great Dinosaur Party Favor or Gift for a Dinosaur Themed Party.

Buy Dinosaur Roar Memory Card Game

A Fantastic Jumbo Dinosaur Roar 24 piece Floor Puzzle, featuring Paul Stickland's cover artwork for Dinosaur Roar! This puzzle has extra large pieces suitable for smaller fingers and is made of top quality cardboard. 

The finished puzzle measures 490mm x 685mm. Suitable for ages 3 years and up.

Buy Dinosaur Roar Jumbo Floor Puzzle

4-in-1 Dinosaur Roar Jigsaw Puzzle! Wow all my favourite dinosaurs, Dinosaur Roar, Dinosaur Sweet, Dinosaur Squeak and Allsorts of Dinosaurs Eating Up Their Lunch...

Four big dinosaur puzzles in one beautiful box!

Buy Paul Lamond 4-in-1 Dinosaur Roar Puzzle 

Great gifts for dinosaur mad children if you are giving a dinosaur themed birthday party or having a dinosaur themed class in school. Perfect for introducing the world of dinosaurs to younger kids.

How to Draw Dinosaur Roar!

The Guardian very kindly asked me to create a slideshow of images showing How to Draw a Dinosaur!
More precisely, How to Draw Dinosaur Roar! So, I did! Click on the Google Drive Presentation below to see it...

So here is a step by step guide on how to draw a dinosaur. 

Of course this is just my way of drawing dinosaurs. There are thousands of ways of drawing dinosaurs and in my travels around the country to author events, dinosaur drawing and pop up workshops, I see all manner of fabulous creations from children of all ages and abilities.

I start with a pencil and a few rough shapes before progressing on to more details and eventually coloured inks. I usually have a look at some 'real' dinosaur pictures, or visit my favourite Dinosaur Museum, The Natural History Museum in London.

Click settings on the slideshow above to download this How to Draw as a pdf or powerpoint presentation.

Send in your Dinosaur Drawings!

But I'm sure that you, your children or your class could do better than me!
So please send your Dinosaur Drawings to The Guardian to feature in their children's book gallery.
Follow the link on the original The Guardian How to Draw... Dinosaur Roar! article.

All children are hard wired to be dinosaur experts and so they all have amazing ideas about what they look like. I see the best dinosaur drawings!
Sometimes you can see children working through their fears through their dinosaur creations.
I always encourage the children to do it their way, be it silly, serious, scary or hairy, roary or clawy, spikey or lumpy, happy or sad. I see a great many Mumosaurus or Dadosaurus and a great many brother and sisterosauruses, usually being gobbled up!

Gobble, Gobble, Nibble, Nibble, Munch, Munch, Scrunch!

If you would like me to come and give a Dinosaur Roar Drawing Workshop in your school, library or children's or book festival, please visit my Author Events, Dinosaur Drawing and Pop Up Workshops page on my website.

Visit the New Dinosaur Roar Website!

BIG FUN Education: An author event with Paul Stickland

Dinosaur Roar! Video Hangout with BIG FUN Education!

It was a great pleasure to be part of +BIG FUN Education's inaugural author event live on Google Plus recently. It's the very first time that I've presented a Dinosaur Roar! author event live in a google plus video hangout. Confidently hosted and assisted by founder +Annabelle Howard and +Azlin Bloor, I had the extraordinary experience of reading and engaging with children in both Hawaii and Argentina!
I used the colourful Keynote presentation of Dinosaur Roar! which I use at author events and workshops in schools, libraries and festivals and, with a minor hiccup, it worked really well. Being able to zoom in on details of my dinosaur illustrations, allows children to enjoy the details that they would normally only be able to appreciate in a book.
The children had some great questions for me and it was so cool to be able to see and converse with them on the other side of the planet!
I've been wanting to try out this amazing hangout technology for a long time and I'm so grateful to Azlin and Annabel for de-mystifying the whole process. It's giving me ideas for other author events!
Time to get the hang of hangouts!

Great Review of Dinosaur Roar! by The Times

The Times Reviews Dinosaur Roar!

The first review of the 20th Anniversary Edition of the bestselling children's dinosaur book, Dinosaur Roar! is in and it's a cracker!
A wonderful surprise in The Times yesterday, made my day!

"It’s the 20th anniversary of Dinosaur Roar, the picture-book giant for small children which has been reissued for the occasion. “Dinosaur sweet, dinosaur grumpy, dinosaur spiky, dinosaur lumpy” — it still puts a lump in your throat. In a handful of words and 24 pages of fabulous drawings, the authors convey a crucial message to small kids and big ones: different folks can get along, and even eat tea together without fighting. They should have handed it out at the peace talks in Geneva. With its satisfying onomatopoeia and scope for silly voices, it’s one of my favourite books ever to read out loud" 

by Alex O’Connell

thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/books/childrensbooks/article3991672.ece

The brand new 20th anniversary edition of Dinosaur Roar! will be published as part of a whole new world of Dinosaur Roar!
Exciting, I've been looking forward to this for so long, so much hard work from the team behind the scenes. It's been an amzing book to take out to all the thousands of children I have met over the last 20 years. Kids are hard-wired for Dinosaurs!
If you are interested in a Paul Stickland Dinosaur Roar! Event or Workshop at your school, library or festival, just contact me on the page below, they're great fun!
paulstickland.co.uk/Author-Visits-Pop-Up-Workshops

Here's the book...
paulstickland.co.uk/Dinosaur-Roar

Read more reviews of Dinosaur Roar!

"This is a delightful book, and a firm favourite with pre-schoolers. The glorious illustrations encourage comment and observation, while the rhythm of the text soon has children chanting along..." THE INDEPENDENT

DINOSAUR ROAR! was listed third in the top 10 dinosaur books by the Daily Telegraph who added ..."A lovely rhythmic poem that small children love to recite." DAILY TELEGRAPH

"...hugely successful. Based on opposites, the rhyming text has a great swinging rhythm, and the pictures are great too, with some nice visual jokes." PRACTICAL PARENTING MAGAZINE

"Here, the most expressive of dinosaurs introduce very young children to the idea of opposites. Wonderful illustrations and a text full of rhyme and rhythm, make this a book to revisit endlessly." BOOKSTART MAGAZINE

"If you only put one book in their Christmas stocking, make it DINOSAUR ROAR!, an exquisitely illustrated and highly entertaining picture book." GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

"This board book version of the highly successful picture book introduces opposites. Spectacular, brightly coloured dinosaurs of every shape and size roar and squeak... Dinosaurs are endlessly fascinating to children, this lovely book will encourage even younger fans." THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE

"These dinosaurs, as colorfully and cleverly conceived by the Sticklands (The Christmas Bear, 1993), are huge but meek, tiny but fierce, clean but awfully prim, slovenly but affectionate. A "sweet'' dinosaur tries to coyly "hide'' behind a tree thinner than its arm; a "fat'' dinosaur lounges with a palm tree between its fingers, about to chew it as if it were a blade of grass; in a primordial dinner scene, herbivores and carnivores alike look on in bemused astonishment as one strange creature, passing up both the foliage and the bones that are politely being consumed all around, feasts on the "h'' in "scrunch!'' Crafty details like these transform what might otherwise be just another look at the oldest cast of characters in children's literature into a visual extravaganza. (Book-of-the-Month Club main selection)"  KIRKUS


#dinosaurroar #dinosaurs #childrensbooks #kbn #kids #dinosaur  

Visit the New Dinosaur Roar Website!