Adrian Reynolds

On Harry's first day at his new school he is not sure whether or not to bring his bucket of dinosaurs, but in the end the dinosaurs help him make a friend.

Harry finds toy dinosaurs in the attic that come to life when he names each one.

When Sammy's grandmother goes into the hospital with a bad cough, he makes some special robots to look after her.

A young boy takes his toy dinosaurs with him to help calm his fears on his first visit to the dentist.

Baby and mother go out to do errands and see friends and then go back home again.

Harry has to go to Charlie's house and he doesn't want her to play with his dinosaurs. But when Charlie builds a swamp, Harry gets drawn into an exciting adventure. Together they must rescue Tyrannosaurus from the giant swamp snake. Suggested level: junior.

Sammy discovers a box of dusty toy dinosaurs in the attic. He cleans them and takes them everywhere, including the library where he looks up all of their names, which he whispers to them. And the dinosaurs whisper their thanks. Sammy is devastated when he accidentally leaves his dinosaurs on tire train. But in the end, Sammy and his dinosaurs are reunited because he knows their names.

Pete and his polar bear are both nervous on their first day of nursery school, especially when Polo finds he is the only bear that's not brown.

Harry and his dinosaur friends pretend to be jungle animals.

The green arches / Joan Aiken -- The Aztec opal / Rodrigues Ottolengui -- Wuthering Heights (an extract) / Emily Brontë -- The girl who kissed a peach tree (an Italian folktale) / Eleanor Farjeon -- The thing in the pond / Paul Ernst -- Smart ice cream / Paul Jennings -- The pelican / Ann Pilling -- The adventures of Johnnie Waverly / Agatha Christie -- The tower / Carl Jung -- The scythe / Ray Bradbury -- A sea above the sky / Thomas Wright -- A vine on the house / Ambrose Bierce -- The master / Diana Wynne Jones.