Tyrannosaurus Drip By Julia Donaldson & David Roberts

Tyrannosaurus Drip by Julia Donaldson and David Roberts In a swamp beside a river, where the land was thick with veg, lived a herd of duckbilled dinosaurs who roamed the water's edge. And they hooted up with the rivers and they hooted up with the reeds And they hooted up with the bellyfuls of juicy water weeds Now across the rushy river, on a hill the other side, lived a mean tyrannosaurus with his grim and grisly bride. And they shouted, Up with hunting. And they shouted, Up with war.

And they shouted, Up with bellyfuls of duckbill dinosaur! But the two Tyrannosauruses, so grisly, mean, and grim, couldn't catch the duckbilled dinosaurs because they couldn't swim. And they muttered Down with water and they muttered down with wet. And they muttered, What a shame those bridges aren't invented yet. Now a little Compsognathus, but for short, we'll call her comp found a duckbilled egg and stole it from a nest beside the swamp.

' And she swam with it and ran with it, and murmured Clever me and won't the baby comps be thrilled with duckbill egg for clever. T She dropped the egg in terror and went running for her life, from the mean Tyrannosaurus and his grim and grisly wife. And the duckbill egg went rolling, and at last it came to rest. In of all unlikely places, the Tyrannosaurus nests.

Now the mother Tea had great big jaws and great enormous legs, but her brain was rather little, and she couldn't count her eggs. And she sang Atch out my terrors with your scaly little tails and your spiky little toothies and your scary little nails. Out hatched babies one and two, as perfect as could be. But Mother T was horrified by baby number three. And she grumbled, He looks sweedy. And she grumbled, he looks weak. And she grumbled, What long arms and look his mouth is like a bee.

He just needs feeding up, said Dad, and gave the babe some meat. The first two gulped and guzzled, but the third refused to eat. And he said, I'm really sorry. And he said, I simply can't. And he said This meat looks horrible. I'd rather eat a plant. A plant yelled Mum in horror. And Dad said, Get a grip His sisters found a name for him. Tyrannosaurus drip. And they shouted, Up with hunting and they shouted, Up with war And they shouted, Up with bellyfuls of duckbill dinosaur

Poor Tyrannosaurus Drip tried hard to sing along, but the others yelled, You silly Drip! You've got the words all wrong! For he hooted down with hunting and he hooted down with war and he hooted down with bellyfuls of duckbilled dinosaur Drip's sisters soon grew big enough to hunt with Dad and Mum. But they turned on Drip and told him, You're not fierce enough to come?

And he cried They've gone without me. And he cried. A lackaday Annie cried This doesn't feel like home. I'm going to run away. So he ran off to the river, where he saw a lovely sight a herd of duckbilled dinosaurs all hooting with delight. And they hooted Up with rivers And they hooted Up with reeds And they hooted Up with bellyfuls of juicy water weeds As he stood there on the bank, a sudden urge took hold of him, and he jumped into the water, and discovered he could swim.

And the duckbills came to greet him by the rushy river's edge, and they hooted Nice to see you and they hooted Have some veg. And Drip, who was delighted that they hadn't run away, ate bellyfuls of water weeds and played with them all day. Then he gazed into the river and he asked them. Who oh who is that creature in the water? They laughed and said, It's you That night the lightning crackled and a storm blew down a tree, and it fell across the river, and the teas cried out, Yeeppee

And they shouted, Up with hunting! And they shouted, Up with war. And they shouted, Up with bellyfuls of duck bill dinosaur. Drip's sister stepped onto the bridge, but then began to frown. For there in front of them stood Drip, who yelled Look down! And they looked into the water, and they each let out a yelp. And one cried, Water Monsters! And the other one cried, Help! Their mother scolded, Nonsense and she joined them on the tree. Then she looked into the water and exclaimed, Good gracious me

The three of them stood trembling. And Dan said, Get a grip You're all of you as drippy as Tyrannosaurus drip He strode onto the bridge and scoffed. A bet is nothing there Then he looked into the water, and he jumped into the air. And how the duckbills hooted when he landed with a crash, and the tree bridge broke and four Tyrannosauruses went splash. And spluttering and clinging to the branches of the tree, they went whooshing down a waterfall, and all the way to sea.

And the duckbills hooted happily. They hooted Hip Hip Hip Hooray for the heroic one and only Duck Bill Drip. I hope you enjoyed another one of Albert's favorite books. There's plenty more to listen to. If not now, maybe another time. Thanks for listening.