Author: Charlie James
Reading Age: 8-10

Ok. Here's a question: If an egg hatched into a dinosaur on your kitchen table would you: a) Lock it up in a secure room, and then run for the hills as fast as you could? Or b) Hide it from Mum and try to keep it as a pet?

It is Ned's bad luck that his brother Bill decides to go for option 'b'. So when a seemingly innocent boiled egg on the breakfast table starts to shake, change colour and say 'cheep' and then hatch out a dinosaur, it is up to Ned to try to shake some sense into his totally irresponsible brother, all the while keeping his eagle-eyed mum in the dark …

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