Ok. Here's a question: If an egg hatched into a dinosaur on your kitchen table would you: a) Lock it up in a secure room, and then run for the hills as fast as you could? Or b) Hide it from Mum and try to keep it as a pet?It is Ned's bad luck that his brother Bill decides to go for option 'b'. So when a seemingly innocent boiled egg on the breakfast table starts to shake, change colour and say 'cheep' and then hatch out a dinosaur, it is up to Ned to try to shake some sense into his totally irresponsible brother, all the while keeping his eagle-eyed mum in the dark ...

 

This book was recognised in the Ages 8-11 Years category by the Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books.

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .