Dinah crept away, feeling very empty. She wandered back to the iguanodon, sucking her thumb.
"I wish I had a mum to make me a packed lunch," said Dinah.
A hand reached out and patted her on the shoulder.
A huge scaly hand with a spiked thumb!
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For Bunny, with lots of love
CONTENTS
Chapter One 3
Chapter Two 14
Chapter Three 31
Chapter Four 44
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Chapter One
Dinah woke up early.
She didn't feel like getting
washed. She didn't feel like
getting dressed. She didn't feel like going to school.
"Boring," said
Dinah.
Dinah did not feel like
breakfast.
Not cornflakes and milk.
"Boring," said Dinah.
She made herself a j a m
sandwich.
"Yummy," said Dinah,
rubbing her tummy.
She fed the teddy on her
nightie, too.
Dinah wanted a drink but the
lemonade was right at the top of the cupboard with Dad's beer.
Dinah couldn't reach.
Then she saw Dad's window-
cleaning ladder.
5
Dinah nearly reached the
lemonade.
But then the ladder slipped.
D a d woke up early, too.
Dinah hated it when Dad got
cross. She didn't have a mum or
any brothers or sisters. Dinah just had her dad.
"How am I going to clean the windows now?" said Dad. "And take that thumb out of your
mouth, baby."
Dinah always sucked her
thumb when she was sad. Her
special sucking thumb was
starting to get a bit pointed.
8
Dinah was still sucking her
thumb when she went to school.
The boys teased her. Dinah got
cross. There was a fight.
Then Miss Smith got cross and
sent Dinah indoors.
Dinah had a little wash.
Dinah's best friend, Judy,
ended up having a little wash,
too.
Miss Smith got very cross and
said Dinah wouldn't go on the
school trip to the museum if she wasn't careful.
"A museum?" Dinah muttered.
"Boring."
11
Dinah's best friend, Judy, was
still very damp. She didn't feel like sitting next to Dinah on the minibus. She sat next to
Danielle, and they kept giggling together.
Dinah had to sit next to Miss
Smith.
When they got to the museum
Judy went off arm in arm with
Danielle.
"I don't care," said Dinah, sucking her thumb.
13
Chapter Two
Dinah cheered up when they
went into a special dinosaur
exhibition. Dinosaurs were huge
monsters who lived millions of
years ago.
Dinah liked the look of
dinosaurs.
14
Some of the dinosaurs were
very fierce and vicious. Judy and Danielle squealed. Dinah didn't
mind a bit.
The dinosaurs had huge long
names to match their size.
Dinah wasn't very good at
reading but she found she had
no problem spelling out
brontosaurus . . .
. . . and tyrannosaurus and
triceratops.
She particularly liked the
iguanodon. It had a funny
pointed thumb spike. Perhaps the iguanodon sucked
its thumb, too.
Miss Smith got cross because
Dinah kept lagging behind.
>
"Hurry up, Dinah. It's
lunchtime," said Miss Smith.
19
Everyone had a packed lunch
except Dinah. Dad always
forgot things like packed lunches.
Sometimes Judy shared her
packed lunch with Dinah. But
not today.
"Ooh, my mum's given me
prawn sandwiches and a bunch
of grapes and a Kit Kat and a
can of Coke. Want half my
Kit Kat, Danielle?" said Judy.
20
Dinah crept away, feeling
very empty. She wandered back
to the iguanodon, sucking her
thumb.
"I wish I had a mum to make me a packed lunch," said Dinah.
21
A hand reached out and
patted her on the shoulder.
A huge scaly hand with a
spiked thumb!
22
The iguanodon reached down
and picked Dinah up. It cradled
her in its arms, rocking
backwards and forwards.
The iguanodon made Dinah
her own packed lunch.
She ate a leaf sandwich, a
bunch of daisies, a twig snack
bar and a bottle of dinosaur
juice.
The dinosaur juice was a very
bright green. It tasted strange
too, but Dinah drank a few
drops.
The iguanodon wiped Dinah's
mouth in a motherly way.
25
"Dinah! Where are you?"
Miss Smith was coming!
Dinah jumped down and the
iguanodon shot back into place
with a rattle and a clunk. Miss
Smith didn't see. She was cross
with Dinah.
Dinah was too dazed to care.
All the other children were in
the gift shop buying books and
stickers and little rubber
Dinah didn't have any money
but she didn't mind. She didn't
want a book or a sticker or a
little rubber dinosaur.
She had just had a dinosaur's
packed lunch!
27
Dinah was very quiet on the
bus going back.
"You're not going to be sick, are you, Dinah?" Miss Smith asked anxiously.
Dinah wasn't sure. She felt
very strange. She sucked her
thumb, but it tasted strange, too.
She went to bed straight after
supper. Perhaps she should have
had a bath. Her skin felt strange now, hard and dry and itchy.
29
Dinah sucked her strange
thumb and went to sleep. She
dreamt very strange dreams.
Chapter Three
When Dinah woke, something
even stranger had happened.
She sat up and her head
bumped against the ceiling! Her
bed was so tiny she had to cram
her knees right up under her
chin.
Her bedroom had shrunk in
the night.
No. Even stranger . . .
Dinah had grown. She had
grown and grown and grown.
She had grown a long back and
long legs and a long tail!
32
Dinah gasped and sucked her
thumb. At least she still had a thumb.
She wondered what to do.
She decided she'd better tell
Dad.
She had to bend double to
get out of her bedroom door
and . . .
edge along the hall, her head
neatly sweeping up the cobwebs
(Dinah and her dad didn't
bother about dusting) . . .
35
and then she had to bend right
down again to get into Dad's
bedroom.
"Dad. Dad! Wake up, Dad,"
said Dinah.
"What's the matter?" Dad mumbled. "Stop yelling at me, Dinah."
36
D a d peered out from under
the bedcovers. He saw Dinah.
D a d was the one who did the
yelling this time.
" A a a a a a a a a h ! "
"A monster! A monster! Run, Dinah, there's a monster in my
bedroom," Dad yelled.
"Hey, Dad. It's me, Dinah.
I'm the monster," said Dinah.
"Well, I think I've turned into a dinosaur, actually. It feels a bit scary. Give me a cuddle, D a d . "
38
It was a bit scary for Dad,
too. But he could see the huge
dinosaur in his bedroom was
wearing Dinah's nightie and
talking with Dinah's voice.
It was his daughter Dinah all
right. So he gave her a cuddle as best he could.
Then Dinah gave Dad a
cuddle, which was much easier.
It was fun being able to pick
D a d up with her new arms.
She'd have to remember to cut
her claws though.
Her new skin didn't need a
wash but her arms ached when
she cleaned all her new teeth
with Dad's big clothes-brush.
41
Dinah was terribly greedy at
breakfast. She ate a whole loaf
of bread in one gollop and
finished a jar of j a m with one lick.
"Well, I'm a growing girl,"
said Dinah, giggling.
"I don't know how I'm going to afford to feed you now.
Money doesn't grow on trees,"
said Dad.
42
Luckily, Dinah liked eating
trees. Well, the leaves and the
smaller snappier branches. And
privet hedges taste delicious if you're a dinosaur.
Everyone got their hedges
trimmed and their trees pruned
for nothing.
43
Chapter Four
D a d took Dinah to the doctor's.
" C a n you cure my Dinah?"
asked Dad.
"I think you'd better take her to a vet," said the doctor.
Dinah did a bit of doctoring
herself.
She cured a baby's hiccups
and made an old lady's bad leg
better.
45
Dad took Dinah to the vet's.
"Well, she's certainly got a healthy appetite," said the vet.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with her."
"In that case you'd better go to school," said Dad.
"Boring," said Dinah.
But maybe school might be
more fun today.
She certainly caused a bit of
fuss when she went in through
the school gates.
47
Dad had to have a few words
with Miss Smith.
Miss Smith wasn't at all sure
she could cope with this new
Dinah.
"It's OK, Miss Smith. I'll be ever so good," said Dinah.
48
Dinah did try to be good. She
didn't talk in the (now very
crowded) class, but when she
started to get bored she gave her new long tail a little flick . . .
which caused a bit of bother . . .
and at playtime she fought the
boys . . .
51
and splashed the girls B U T . . .
52
she somehow didn't get into
trouble.
Everyone wanted to play with
Dinah
now.
"Dinah's my best friend," said Judy.
"I'll be best friends with
everyone," said Dinah. "Hey, who wants a ride on my tail?"
"Dinah's better than
Disneyland!" said Judy.
Dinah even gave Miss Smith a
ride!
When Dad collected her from
school, Dinah helped him clean
all the windows in the street.
56
People paid double
to watch D a d
climb up and
down his new
ladder.
Dinah and Dad got very hot
working so hard.
"Let's go home and have a
cool bath," said Dad.
"Boring," said Dinah. "Let's go swimming."
So Dinah and Dad went to
the swimming pool. There
wasn't much pool left after
Dinah dived in!
59
Dinah made an excellent
diving board and water fountain.
It took D a d a very long time
to get her properly dry.
61
D a d had fish and chips for
supper.
Dinah had leaves and privet
and dandelions and nettles and
long grass and a big bunch of
flowers and fish and chips.
"Yummy," said Dinah,
rubbing her tummy.
Dad tried his best to tuck her
up in bed.
Dinah sucked her new spiked
thumb until she fell asleep
and . . .
63
when she woke up she was a
little girl again.
"Boring," said Dinah.
But she still had a nearly full
bottle of dinosaur juice . . .
T H E E N D
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
J A C Q U E L I N E W I L S O N 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 n a m e d after her) before turning to writing fiction full-time.