The Christmasaurus

Tom Fletcher is a GREAT author! This book is comical! The way it is written is glorious, as if a friend is telling you a story! If you like humor you'll love this book. Caution..... if your child still believes in Santa this may add some new twists to the way you celebrate. My child now leaves out cookies for the deer and the Christmasaurus, and carrots for Santa. LOL

I bought this book a few years ago for my youngest son. We pull it out every November and read a chapter together each night. It’s a wonderful book that highlights children with disability and hardship in the kindest and most loving way. The rhyming songs by the elves are my favorite part to read. They are slightly difficult, but oh so fun! Looking forward to reading again this year.

Have as a holiday book for the grandchildren. Beautiful book to read before bedtime chapters. Delightful story a beginner reader can read with parent.

It came used not in a raper or plastic the pages are bent. But the stories are cute the illustration is nice my grandkids enjoy it being read to them and that’s what matters most.

This is SUCH a great book! It was recommended to us by a friend and I’ve been reading it aloud to my 6.5 and 5 year olds. They LOVE it! They look forward to breakfast each morning when I read to them as they eat (and beg for more chapters through the day). It’s a highlight for them! A well written story, captivating for kiddos, and has some great lessons/talking points for parents (kindness, different abilities, everyone’s uniqueness being special, etc). Would definitely recommend as a gift for reading aloud to early readers or for higher leveled elementary readers👌🏼

WARNING!!! This is not for little kids, and one of them gets killed! Now that I said that, here are some of the character in chronological order (more or less) — 3. Exactly 64,321,031 years ago in the ice age, there were only two dinosaurs left. The Momosaurus and Dadlodocus died, but the dinosaur had an egg named EGG. 10. William Trundle (our HERO) he loved dinosaurs (toys, books, etc.) and has a wheelchair (what a GREAT book idea). 11. Mr. (Bob) Trundle: William’s Dad. 24. There are 8 tiny elves (Elvis?), all of whose names start with letter “S”. And the 1st one is Snozzletrump. SnozzleTRUMP?!?!?! Oh my gosh. (Later on, you see SnozzleTRUMP has a handy Crumpet Consumption Graph! Cute! Is that the President, or what?) 28. The EGG again and it lives in the North Pole (you know where). 38. Santa, of course. He is humongous, enormous bottom, fatter than fat: Just an OVAL (like an EGG). I think he needs to lose weight [or else!]. 58. Finally, Santa hates the egg and names him The CHRISTMASAURUS! 61. There are the Reindeer, of course, but they have NO NAMES. For me, I like “On, Lipstick! On, Dipstick! On, Pixie! On Dixie!, On, Kramden! On, Norton! On Alice! On, Trixie!” And how about the one I remember, Rudolph? 69. Brenda (the?) Payne: The meanest girl in the whole school — possibly the WORLD. (Hint: Brenda throws a snowball like Babe Ruth or Sandy Koufax.) 130. Santa made a stuffed dinosaur named STUFFY! with button eyes and great pictures! I’m in love! (Another “S”!) 158. And then we see “The Hunter” (the man was EVIL) and his hound dog named Growler. (Is that Elvis Presley’s song “Hound Dog”?) Anyhow, The Hunter would shoot the rifle at the Reindeer (I hope not Santa), but that’s too easy even for Growler. And then he sees a real D-D-D-DINOSAUR? “And I MUST have his head on the wall! I’d go down in hunting history. I’d be ... the GREATEST HUNTER OF ALL TIMES.” Bang! BANG!! BANG!!! And who killed whom? GULP! A wonderful book, BUT not for little kids. O.K.. P.S. — I found this book in 11 different languages (other than English, of course). Are there more?

Wonderful story to read during the month of December! My 8 year old daughter really enjoyed listening to this story as a nightly read aloud. The author is very talented and his style is reminiscent of Roald Dahl. We'll definitely be looking into reading his other books as well as the sequel to the Christmasauras come next December.

Her review is: I give this book full marks. It was so good. I really loved that it had a morale to the story and showed you should never bully someone. Everyone should be accepted.

I wrote this review before but I will do it again. This book needed many warnings. It has been the an absolute nightmare reading this book. Many double negative sentences and so much about bullying. A disable child with a single parent household. Repeatedly is ridiculed in the most harsh ways by a bully. Saying “it’s your fault your dad is alone.” And I really don’t want to write the rest. I read a head and decided this is an absolute disgrace to children books. Please if you have a child don’t buy this book. Look at the one star reviews they are the truth. I don’t know who can give this book a five but that’s a stretch.

An A.I. generated (if it wasn't then shame on the author) by-the-numbers plot featuring a kid in a wheelchair, written by someone who clearly thought they might cash in on the disbled kid thing, but then puts him in "lighthearted comedy" situation in which he's basically bullied (hilarious) - at one point a Guiness Book of records official turns up after he has cream poured over him to declare him the biggest bowl of cereal ever - not a developed part of the story, just a single line added to make the humiliation "funny". Try this choice paragraph for size: "Their teacher Mr Dribblepot, had just popped out to the loo, and as Brenda never missed an opportunity to make William's life feel miserable, as soon as the door clicked shut, a shiny black stapler flew across the classroom, straight at william's head! William tried to block it with his exercise book, but the force of the throw was so strong that the book smacked hium straight in the face and the stapler stapled it to his forehead!" A delightfully whimsical illustration punctuates this moment of comedy genius. The kid called William get's called "Willy" and "Willy-poos" and "wheely William" to much hilarity, which caused my own disabled son William quite a bit of discomfort, as he's never been bullied over his name - thanks, "socially aware" book for essentually bullying my son... A little sample of the imaginative lengths the author goes to, to make disabled kids feel welcome - instead of "...they would sing hurtful songs at him...", no, the author decides to invent an entire 3- verse bullying song for our enjoyment - here's the third couplet for the edification of no-one, but hopefully your information: Wheely William sitting in a chair, Wheely William rolls everywhere! He can't do jumps! He can't even stand! To go upstairs He uses a ramp! Oh, and that's just a glimpse at the quality of the poetry that happens every other page. The Elves are consumate song-writers who only speak in "rhyme": "Santa come quick! Santa! Come help! This egg is too heavy For the North Pole elves!" Right. Meanwhile, Rohald Dahl's and Enid Blyton's classics have to be sanitised for a modern audience, but this drivel? No, this is fine because it features a boy in a wheelchair. Give me a break.

Super pour l'école de mon fils en immersion qui impose une lecture en anglais of course. Mon fil fan de dino adore

Consegna nei tempi. Storia molto carina e tenera che racconta di un bambino con bisogni speciali. Ottimo come regalo di natale per bambini.

The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher is about the young boy William Trundle who loves Dinosaurs like nothing else in the world. His father Mr Bob Trundle does the same with Christmas. For Christmas William wants a Dinosaur and Santa gets him a very special one. Lots of adventures to come! Even though The Christmasaurus is for young readers I totally enjoyed reading it! It's such a nice Christmas story! I loved the way all the elves on the North Pole talked! Tom did a good job with his rhymes. I fell so in love with the elves and their names! They are so nice little creatures. Also Santa is such a nice guy! He is described in such a lovely way so you just must to fall in love with him. I love that he is not exactly the Santa everyone thinks about. Tom kind of made him new. The description of the North Pole is wonderful! There is everything you can dream of. I have to admit I fell in love with Mr Trundle! He loves Christmas with all his heart and tells his son stories about Santa and the North Pole and he has such a good heart! His son William is also a really nice boy. He is always friendly and helpful. Our special dinosaur, the Christmasaurus is very magical! How Tom described him he must look so beautiful and magical. I just love that there were a lot of illustrations in the book so you know exactly how the characters and the North Pole looked like! This book brought festive cheer to me and I really loved reading it and think it is a wonderful Christmas story! It's not only for young readers but for everyone! Merry Christmas! ❄