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Julia Donaldson and David Roberts
Tyrannosaurus Drip
Macmillan 9781405090001
Duckbill dinosaurs are the most placid, peaceful and gentle of creatures so when one of their eggs hatches out in the wrong nest, that of the big, fierce, very scary Tyrannosaurus, there's a bit of confusion. In lovely rolling rhyming lines problems such as his preference for munching water weed to the more usual food there mean that his somewhat terrifying big sisters name him Drip. Julia Donaldson, of Gruffalo fame, has come up with another winner and the evocative illustrations by David Roberts have slight hints of both the Clangers and the Moomins about them.

John Henderson , Julia Donaldson and Thomas Docherty
Fly, Pigeon, Fly
Little Tiger Press (32 pages) 9781845061876
The format is that of a picture book but with more text and with artwork with an older age appeal. The family home is in Glasgow. Dad has been made redundant from the shipyards and living in bleak, unfriendly, industrial surroundings he is depressed and Mum is at the end of her tether. The boy finds solace from his loneliness in the companionship of a pigeon and as his home life improves he understands that his wild bird friend must return to freedom. There is a multitude of possible interpretations of both images and text here. It is a touching story as it stands but with so much going on underneath, readers can extrapolate a number of other ideas if they are so inclined. Altogether this is a different and intriguing, involving and engrossing, book.