This book is part of a book series called I Am Reading .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Turtleback Books .

Brough Girling is an energetic promoter of children's books and reading, and Campaign Director of Readathon, the sponsored reading event in schools that raises money every year for children's cancer charities. Brough is also the successful author of many humorous books for children, including the Vera Pratt series. He has worked extensively as a broadcaster on children's television. He lives near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire. Stephen Dell is an experienced illustrator, particularly in advertising. Grandad's Dinosaur was his first full-colour book commission. Since its publication, he has worked on books such as Football Crazy: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Football (Bloomsbury). He lives in London. Brough Girling is a well-known author of children's books - Jets, Jokebooks and fiction for older readers - all humourous stuff. He was the first head of the Children's Book Foundation [now Young Book Trust]; editor of Young Telegraph and still heads up Readathon which raises enormous sums of money for children's charities during National Book Week.