Friday 19 July 2024
12:00 pm
Jen says: “This book started out as a cunning ploy to get my kids to eat their dinner (Is it really dinosaur pie, Mum?) Then it became a poem for a few years. It enjoyed that but it began to dream of being a book. So it pestered me and pestered me and eventually I helped it become this book.
I populated it with neurodivergent characters because those are the people I know best. So you will see some of my autistic traits and some of my ADHD traits in the characters. I think this is important because there are neurodivergent children in every school and community, so of course they must be in the books children read, even books that started out as dinners.”
Rory is having a weird week. A really weird week. He has been turned into a ridiculous, small, feathered dinosaur. Pretty awkward.
Rory can’t use a human toilet. He can’t hold a video game controller in his little dino claws. His breath smells really bad. And his new carnivore body can’t stop craving sausages.
Rory finally gets his friends to take his embarrassing situation seriously, and together they embark on Operation Make Rory Human Again. But it’s not easy. Will Rory be stuck as a dinosaur forever?
Jen Wallace is an author and mother from Cork who loves stories. She works in both verse and prose and likes to weave stories from a child’s perspective, full of...
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