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A classic environmental tale, as relevant today as it was when it was first published. Now an exciting new theatre production! Dinosaurs have taken over the Earth! They're stomping and stamping because the planet is full of rubbish. Will they find a way to bring back the beauty of the planet, or will the rubbish smoulder and burn forever? Young readers will love this classic environmental tale from bestselling author/illustrator Michael Foreman OBE. This re-edition of the bestselling 1972 book is a true fable for our time, and as relevant today as it was when it was first published.

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Foreman's oddly superreal paintings effectively contrast the dinosaur's tropical paradise with man's dismal world of factory smoke and rubbish, but this fable is just as heavyhanded and muddleheaded about pollution as Moose (KR 1972) and The Two Giants (KR 1967) were about war. Foreman's dinosaurs inherit the earth after a saurian second coming, rising from centuries deep underground and slouching toward Gotham to reclaim what man has destroyed in his singleminded construction and launching of a rocket bound for a star. Somehow though when the man lands on the star it turns out to be the very same Earth he had once left behind him, since made crisp and shimmering by the dinosaurs - who now announce that all of the earth belongs to everyone, not parts of it to certain people. A creature most children associate with maladaptation and ferocity makes a strange sort of savior for anyone inclined to think about it, but the dinosaur does get off one amusing (if patently senseless) line - As a matter of fact our heads are almost the same size, but my heart is much bigger than yours - and maybe we should be content that Foreman's heart is in the right place. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Michael Foreman is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator.

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