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    When You Were a Dinosaur (and Other Tales and Mighty Beasts)
    When You Were a Dinosaur (and Other Tales and Mighty Beasts)
    When You Were a Dinosaur (and Other Tales and Mighty Beasts)
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    When You Were a Dinosaur (and Other Tales and Mighty Beasts)

    By Neil McFarlane

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    When You Were a Dinosaur is a collection of educational and entertaining stories designed for parents to read to/with children aged five to infinity! In each story, your child will have a great time being the main character who changes into and lives the life of a mighty creature for a day.

    Although the main aim of this book is to entertain young readers with fantastical adventures in which they are the star, kids will also...

    ... learn amazing facts about the workings and wonders of the natural world
    ... learn about the behaviour, habits and lives of these amazing creatures
    ... discover a new perspective on life by walking in another animal’s ‘shoes’ for a day
    ... have a funny adventure that will captivate and educate
    ... giggle!

    CONTENTS
    1. When You Were a Dinosaur
    2. When You Were a Lion
    3. When You Were a Gorilla
    4. When You Were a Whale
    5. When You Were an Elephant
    6. When You Were a Polar Bear
    7. When You Were a Crocodile
    8. When You Were an Eagle

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNeil McFarlane
    Release dateJan 11, 2018
    ISBN9781370752416
    When You Were a Dinosaur (and Other Tales and Mighty Beasts)

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      When You Were a Dinosaur (and Other Tales and Mighty Beasts) - Neil McFarlane

      When You Were a Dinosaur

      Do you remember when you were a dinosaur?

      A dinosaur?

      Yes! A dinosaur!

      You were absolutely huge with a huge great tail and huge great feet and a huge great head and a tiny brain the size of a pea!

      You stomped about and all the people screamed and ran away from you.

      Don’t you remember? It happened earlier on today and you’ve forgotten about it already! I suppose changing into a dinosaur must have scrambled your pea-sized dinosaur brain and that’s why you can’t remember.

      Let me tell you what happened.

      You’d been reading a book about dinosaurs and I was cutting my toenails when suddenly you closed the book and said, I’m a dinosaur.

      Then you stomped your feet on the floor really hard and I was so surprised I nearly cut off one of my toes.

      I looked at you and said, You’re not a dinosaur.

      Oh yes I am, you said, and you stomped about the room. Then you stomped out the door and stomped into the street, and when the people saw you they screamed, Eek! A dinosaur! and they ran away.

      You tried to tell them, I’m not really a dinosaur. I’m just playing. But when you tried to speak, instead of saying what you wanted to say, you just gave a huge great ROOOAAR! It was so loud that some nearby windows shattered and the glass tinkled on the sidewalk.

      You turned your head and saw a huge great tail behind you. You wondered whose tail that was. Could it be yours? You tried swishing it and immediately it bashed into a dustbin and sent that dustbin flying through the air and over a wall. That tail really was yours.

      Jiminy Cricket! you thought. Me really be dinosaur!

      (You couldn't speak very good English because your brain was so tiny so you weren’t very good at putting words together. Did I mention your brain was only the size of a pea? I thought I did.)

      You stomped along the middle of the road, trying not to crush the cars parked on either side. You were so big that it was quite a squeeze walking down that street. Eventually you saw a bridge over a river, and it looked like there was more space up there so you headed for that bridge.

      But as you stomped up onto it, the bridge crumbled and collapsed beneath your huge weight and down you fell into the river below.

      SPLOOOOSH!

      You landed in the water and thought (with your tiny brain the size of a pea), Oh no! Me no can swim!

      But actually the water only came up to your shoulders, and your huge long neck stuck a long way out above the surface. In fact, it felt quite good to be in that water. It was like having a nice, cool bath. So you walked along in the middle of the river, your tail sticking up out of the water behind you, your head in front and your back in the middle. Someone who was standing on the riverbank pointed at you and shouted, Look, it’s the Loch Ness Monster!

      After a while you came to another bridge, and as you passed under it, a man standing on that bridge waved a piece of paper at you.

      Oi! You! said the man. Monster! This is for you.

      You looked closely at the piece of paper and you could see that there were words and numbers written on it, but you couldn’t understand what they meant because your brain was the size of a pea. (Did I mention that before?)

      The man seemed to guess you couldn’t read it, so he explained it to you.

      My name is Arthur Stickleblock and I’m from the town council. This here is a bill for the cost of a new bridge which we shall need to build after you broke our old one. Pay up or we’ll have you arrested.

      You wanted to say, Me no have money, but it just came out as a great ROAR!

      Arthur Stickleblock’s hair and moustache were nearly blown off by your roar, but he held on tight, one hand on the bridge and one hand on the bill.

      It’s no use your roaring at me like that, he said. You broke our bridge and you’ll just have to pay up.

      By this time there was a big crowd of people who had come to see the monster. Tourists had gathered and were taking photos and overhead there was a TV news helicopter hovering in the sky filming you.

      Look! It’s the Loch Ness Monster! the people cried.

      Me no Loch Ness Monster. Me dinosaur, you tried to say, but it just came out as a great ROAR! That made the people even more excited.

      Just then another man stepped onto the bridge. He was a big man who wore a suit and smoked a cigar. His hair didn’t look real.

      Mr Stickleblock, said the man, I don’t think this monster has any pockets, never mind pockets full of money to pay for a new bridge. Do you, monster? You shook your

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