Children's bookclub: There's a Dinosaur in My Bathtub by Catalina Echeverri

Thank you very much for the book. My 2 year old son loves dinosaurs, so this book was perfect for him he loved this colourful and funny illustrations book. He was laughing and interested from the beginning

I also loved the french element. My sister lives there and my daughter was delighted to show off her language skills!

I am so sorry for my late response. Blame the "return to work" This book came in perfect time for a half term trip to the Lakes. With 2 girls, it was a perfect story for the 6 yr old to read to the 1 yr old. The kids who were with us loved it too (8 & 5). Illustrations are engaging and creative.
A book that can hold interest and ignite curiousity too.
Thank you so much for this lovely gift... We never win anything so are so grateful.

Thank you very much for giving me this nice book. I and my son really enjoyed this book. My son loves dinasour ,he also share this book with his friends.thanks for beautiful illustration and nice story.

Thank you for the book. It's a perfect length for bedtime. I love the creative illustrations and my son who has started learning French at nursery loves that element. Definitely would recommend and would make a lovely gift.

My daughter loved the book! It's colourful,fun,exciting,it doesn't get boring to read and she loved the pictures in it.

Many, many thanks for this bright and cheery picture book. Catalina Echeverri's imaginative, bright and colourful illustrations help bring the story to life. However, one of the of the book's greatest strengths is that the story dares to be different. The prose is humorous and well-thought out, with the subtle use of French phrases introducing young readers to a new language. A criticism of the book can be the way the direction of the story abruptly changes from beginning to show different ways that Pierre disguises himself in avoiding detection to the many fantastical adventures that he and Amelia share. Reading this out aloud in Key Stage 1 provided the impetus for lively discussions between pupils suggesting the many other ways that Pierre could disguise himself - maybe it is the book that needed to do this. However, this is but a minor slight in describing an exciting and vibrant tale. In conclusion, a very enjoyable read.

This was a great story for my dino-obsessed three year old who laughed out loud at Pierre and Amelia's adventures.
The characters are really engaging and my boy loved to see all of the different places Pierre hid in. After reading we looked around our own bathroom to see if there was any spot small enough for him to hide in.
My son has a real fascination with foreign languages at the moment so he was really excited by the french phrases, asking me what they meant and trying to get his tongue around the pronunciation.
We've really enjoyed exploring this book and we'd love to see further adventures from Pierre and Amelia.

My son loved this book, he thought it was very funny laughing all the way through. It's different from the normal books he reads at bedtime, definitely enjoyed it had to read it three times on the first night.

The illustrations in the book are lovely. I love the idea of a French dinosaur in the bath. My boys aged 6 and 4 enjoyed the book and the illustrations can spark discussions

My little boys enjoy nothing more than having a good story read to them, no day is complete without story time so when I was sent 'There's a dinosaur in my bathtub' we were delighted. It has such beautiful illustrations which is always good in a book aimed at pre school aged children.

There's a dinosaur in my bathtub by Catalina Echeverri is a about a little girl called Amelia having a secret she wants to share with the reader of the book. Amelia's secret is that there's a French dinosaur called Pierre in her bathtub.

After discovering Amelia's secret the reader is then swept away to join all the different adventures Amelia and Pierre have, including travelling to the moon and eating a giant ice cream.

There's a dinosaur in my bathtub is a fantastic book for both boys and girls, two of my sons, aged one and three, both love having the book read to them while they look at the splendid pictures.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone with children of pre school age.

Thank you for the picture book. Great timing, ds (4) is currently fixated on all things dinosaur, partly due to Cbeebies 'Andy's Dinosaur Adventures'. The illustrations are bright and colourful. Ds particularly liked the page where Pierre and Amelia are whizzing in a bathtub on what appears to be a roller coaster that goes on forever. He rather wants to have a go at that, me no.... I wish there were more picture books which gently introduced different languages to young children in this way.

Thank you very much for this wonderful book. My 3 year old son is a big fan of dinosaurs, thoroughly enjoyed the story and the illustrations too. Have read it many times already.

Thanks so much for this book. My son absolutely loves it - dinosaurs are always a hit and he's just started learning some French so the perfect combination!
He's taken it into nursery to show his friends so a definite hit

What a fab book my son loved it, the pictures are big , bright and colourful what a lovely surprise turning each page, one comment from my son though, he said the book could do with more words, I laughed as I thought it was so funny coming from him.

Hello,
Thank you so much for this lovely book. My daughter who is four loves it. She is beginning to understand that we all live in different countries and that people speak different languages so she really related to the use of two languages in the book. It has definitely helped her to understand the concept of the 'world' far more.
The illustration style is brilliant and a wide range of scenarios were covered. We have hot chocolate a lot with marshmallows so it was nice for my daughter to see it illustrated so beautifully and thoughtfully - on the moon no less.
I'm sure we will enjoy this book for a long time to come - my son will like it too when he finally sits still long enough to read the whole thing to!

We read this book as a family and enjoyed the pictures especially.
It is a good, imaginative story which caught the imagination of my 4 year old niece. The inclusion of a few french words was also a nice touch. We would recommend this as a lighthearted, jolly read with great pictures.

My 3 year old daughter loved this book. She made a point of telling me so afterwards and asked for a second reading, which is the proof of the pudding! It was a nice quirk to have a few French words in the story, the illustrations were lovely and if I read it to her enough times, she may be the only 3 year old to understand the meaning of 'inconspicuous'! It was a good story for parent and child alike and good bedtime length. A regular bedtime story I'm sure!

Thanks for the book. My son and I loved it. Usually it takes him time to get into new books, and I often find he turns his nose up with female main characters. But this one, he grabbed straight away.

We loved the bright colours, and it's given my preschooler lots of ideas for places to hide when playing hide and seek. He didn't really understand where Pierre was going at the end, but it did mean we could chat around the story which we often don't really do when reading picture books.

He found it really funny, and I think having the french phrases helped us talk about french as he's learning some at both of his nurseries. So really good for an all round education along with some fun storytime.

Thank you for this lovely book. My son is potentially a little bit young for it at 2.5 but loves the story being read to him and trying to find where Pierre is hiding. It is bright and engaging and a perfect length for bedtime reading.

Thanks for the book. A lovely book of imagination with fantastic colourful illustrations. Loved the little bits of French too! :)

My son loved this book. Thank you very much!
He is a dino fan so that made him happy.He liked all the references to sweets and confectionary.
He liked the French expressions dotted throughout the book. I've had to read it again and again which is a good sign of a hit book in our house.

He also spotted the dino under the bed on the last page - something which I didn't notice at all!

Thank you so much for this wonderful book, we enjoyed reading it together and thought the illustrations were fantastic. It is a lovely story and a great way of teaching children how to say goodbye to a friend.

Thank you so much for our copy of this lovely book. Both my children have enjoyed it (even though DS is a bit past the picture book stage). DD (5) really loves it, especially the page when Pierre is hiding. We even took it to granny and grandpa's house and when granny read it she said it reminded her of "Puff the magic dragon" with the dinosaur leaving at the end.

Thank you for sending us the book which arrived last week. My daugher and I enjoyed reading this book and the illustrations are lovely. We both loved the cover of the book as well, as well as using a few french words.

It is really sweet, and I liked that it introduces in a very easy way the whole notion of "saying goodbye" to a friend, and that you will see them again at a later stage.