Zehra Hicks: When Dinosaurs Walked The Earth (free event)

Sunday 10th November 2024, 10am

Sunday 10th November 2024, 10am, FREE EVENT

Storysmith, 236 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JD

We’re delighted to welcome illustrator Zehra Hicks to the shop. Zehra worked with local author Sean Taylor to come up with this year’s Oscar’s-Book-Prize winning picture book (and instant shop favourite) When Dinosaurs Walked The Earth!

Join us for a special dinosaur-themed event featuring illustrator Zehra as well as author Sean! There will be a reading from the book, a dinosaur draw-along led by Zehra, lots of other interactive picture book fun, and the chance to buy a signed copy.

This event is free to attend and suitable for ages 3+. Places are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment. Pre-order your copy of When Dinosaurs Walked The Earth for a special discounted price (RRP £7.99) when you book!

Booking is only required for children! It’s not necessary to reserve a ticket for accompanying adults.

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About Zehra Hicks

Zehra Hicks is an illustrator and author who graduated from the University of Northumbria with a First in Fine Art. She previously worked as a graphic designer before becoming a tutor at Chelsea College of Arts. Her debut picture book, The Boy Who Hated Toothbrushes (Macmillan), was highly commended for the Macmillan Prize for Illustration and won the Heart of Hawick Award 2012. All Mine! (Two Hoots) was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Her work is published in 22 territories.

Zehra’s exciting series about mindfulness written by Rachel Rooney – The Problem with Problems and The Worrying Worries and The Fears you Fear are all out now.

Watch Out! There’s a Monster Coming (Andersen Press) written by Karl Newson is Zehra’s newest book.

Zehra has a unique approach to illustration. By making use of sticks, bamboo and potatoes to create her books, she does not allow herself to be limited to pencils and paint. Sometimes her two children help too!

When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth (Frances Lincoln) won the Oscar’s Book Prize 2024.

About Sean Taylor

Sean Taylor is the author of over 60 books. These include award-winning picture books such as Hoot Owl Master of Disguise, A Brave Bear and When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth, and the much-loved collection of poems for bedtime The Dream Train. You’re a Poet springs from Sean’s long experience of visiting schools and encouraging children to try their hands at writing themselves.

About When Dinosaurs Walked The Earth

WINNER of the Oscar’s Book Prize 2024!

Laugh and learn with this picture book set in the days WHEN DINOSAURS WALKED THE EARTH! Dinosaurs chase each other in this hilarious explanation of the food chain.

Like the Smallasaurus, who enjoys a plant-based diet, and Badasaurus who likes to eat small dinosaurs who enjoy a plant-based diet. It all begins when Smallasaurus has to think. And thinking can be a problem when you only have a brain the size of a walnut. Luckily, Badasaurus only has a brain the size of a peanut…

And so begins a hilarious game of cat and mouse. It’s not long before their chasing here, there and everywhere attracts the attention of an absolutely enormous and rather hungry meat-eating dinosaur called Worseasaurus.

A choice of two dinosaurs is just what Worseasaurus loves for breakfast. Will she eat the small dinosaur, with a plant-based diet? Or will she eat the great big dinosaur, with a small-dinosaur-based diet? It doesn’t take long for her to choose. And it doesn’t take long for Badasaurus to find out.

This exciting picture book shows kids just how much of a dinosaur-eat-dinosaur world it once was! Bring the prehistoric period out of the classroom and to life on this vibrant journey with dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes. This is the perfect way to introduce the concept of the food chain to little ones in a fun and interactive way.

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