The Dinosaur that Pooped a Planet!

About Anselmo KnivesDougie PoynterTom Fletcher

Tom Fletcher (Author) Tom Fletcher is a number-one bestseller and one of the UK's most popular children's authors. The Christmasaurus was the biggest debut middle-grade novel of 2016 and was shortlisted for a British Book Award. Since then Tom has published several more chart-topping children's novels including The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch The Christmasaurus and the Naughty List The Creakers and the instant number-one bestseller The Danger Gang. Tom also writes the incredibly successful Who's in Your Book? picture-book series and is one half of the author duo behind the Dinosaur that Pooped picture-book series too which has sold over 1.5 million copies. For older readers Tom co-authors the Eve of Man series with his wife Giovanna Fletcher. Tom's books have been translated into 40 languages and to date he has sold over 5 million copies of his books in the UK alone. As well as his career as an author by the age of 21 Tom had penned 10 UK number 1 singles and is the founding member of the band McFLY. The Brit Award-winning band has sold over 10 million records worldwide and Tom has also written songs for other artists including One Direction Busted and 5SOS.Dougie Poynter (Author) Dougie Poynter has been obsessed with dinosaurs ever since visiting the Natural History Museum when he was about three. He is passionate about the natural world and a keen conservationist working with charities such as WWF and Greenpeace to get harmful products banned and to clean up the planet.Dougie wrote songs together with Tom Fletcher for years in bands McFly and McBusted; they now write their bestselling Dinosaur that Pooped books in the same way that they write their song lyrics. The books have sold over a million copies!Garry Parsons (Illustrator) Garry Parsons is an award-winning illustrator of books for children including the bestselling The Dinosaur That Pooped series. Garrys illustrations have accompanied the words of many prestigious picture-book authors including Kes Gray Ian Whybrow and Peter Bently. He has also illustrated the popular fiction series The Dragonsitter by Josh Lacey and the space adventure series Georges Secret Key to the Universe by Lucy and Stephen Hawking for slightly older readers. Garry lives in London with his young family and old dog.