From the creator of The Adventures of Pug and Fabio the World’s Greatest Flamingo Detective, Laura James’ The Dinosaur Discovery, the second book in the News Hounds series, is a fabulously entertaining first reader, with Charlie Alder’s full-colour illustrations adding to the fun factor. It’s also a dream to read aloud, with characterful narration, a lively sense of adventure, and short chapters that’ll leave 5+ year-olds longing for more.
Alongside being a stationmaster, Bob is a roving reporter for the Daily Bark newspaper, with dachshund Gizmo at the helm as Editor-in-Chief. After encountering elegant Diamond at the station, a dog who’s new to town, Bob decides to make friends with her by digging up a bone as a gift. But what’s this?! Bob’s only gone and dug up an entire dinosaur skeleton! All manner of mayhem explodes after this makes the front page of the Daily Bark, and attracts the attention of a thief.
Bob is the stationmaster’s dog at Puddle Train Station and a reporter for the Daily Bark, Puddle's best (and only) newspaper for dogs. It’s up to Bob to make sure the trains are on time every day. He has everything under control until the day he digs up the SCOOP of a lifetime in the park – a DINOSAUR skeleton! Suddenly Bob’s life isn’t running like clockwork, it’s running WILD, as he and the other News Hounds catch the scent of a dastardly dinosaur THIEF. Can Bob pull off a daring dinosaur rescue, or is he on the express train to DISASTER?
This young fiction series by the author of Captain Pug is perfect for fans of The Secret Life of Pets and Toto the Ninja Cat.
"A great book with lovely pictures and typography for five- to seven-year-olds who are starting to read for themselves and like dogs with multiple chins" - The Times
"Gorgeous funny young fiction" - Bookseller
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About Laura James
Laura James’ love of storytelling began at an early age and led her to undertake a degree in Film Studies and an MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. The Adventures of Pug are based on the antics of her own very silly dogs, Brian and Florence. Together the three of them live in a tiny cottage just outside of Bath where they have lots of adventures and eat lots of jam tarts – all in the name of research of course! Laura’s first book, Captain Pug, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2017.
