My Small World: Dinosaurs
Caryl Hart and Harry Woodgate
Simon & Schuster Children’s Books

Two small children take readers on an adventure to their imaginary prehistoric world, the land of the dinosaurs.

Therein among erupting volcanoes, they will watch dinosaur cousins – baby pterosaurs learning to fly,

encounter the herbivorous Europasaurs, dive down deep in the ocean and meet an Ichthyosaur, not strictly a dinosaur but a dolphin-like, fish-eating lizard,

take a ride upon the back of an enormous Brachiosaurus while tempting it with something delicious. Suddenly though there comes a fear-inducing ROAR made by a ravenous T.Rex, time to take cover or else perhaps become its next meal. Off go the little humans, following the tracks left in the swamp by a family of Stegosaurs having some fun, then watched by smiling Triceratops they climb up the volcano side and look down upon other dinosaurs hunting or swimming until sunset.

Time to bid farewell to those dino-friends and return to reality. Little humans (with a bit of adult help) can then start assembling some materials to create their very own Dinosaur Land. Instructions are offered at the end of the adventure and the book ends with a ‘my small world’ map.

Author Caryl Hart and illustrator Harry Woodgate have chosen a topic that’s sure to appeal to small children in this, the first of a new series where imagination is key and there’s playfulness aplenty. The rhyming story reads aloud well and the illustrations are infused with gentle humour and alive with vibrant colours.