Dinosaur's Packed Lunch (6 page)

Dad tried his best to tuck her up in bed.

Dinah sucked her new spiked thumb until she fell asleep and when she woke up she was a little girl again.

“Boring,” said Dinah.

But she still had a nearly full bottle of dinosaur juice . . .

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JACQUELINE WILSON is one of Britain's most outstanding writers for young readers. She is the most borrowed author from British libraries and has sold over 25 million books in this country. As a child, she always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first ‘novel' when she was nine, filling countless exercise books as she grew up. She started work at a publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on
Jackie
magazine (which was named after her) before turning to writing fiction full-time.

Jacqueline has been honoured with many of the UK's top awards for children's books, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize, the Red House Book Award and the Children's Book of the Year. She was awarded an OBE in 2002 and was the Children's Laureate for 2005–2007.

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DOUBLE ACT

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GLUBBSLYME

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JACKY DAYDREAM

THE LOTTIE PROJECT

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THE DINOSAUR'S PACKED LUNCH
AN RHCP DIGITAL EBOOK 9781407043401

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Doubleday edition published 1995

First Corgi Pups edition published 1996

This Corgi Pups edition published 2008

Text copyright © Jacqueline Wilson, 1995

Illustrations copyright © Nick Sharratt, 1996

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