Decent books on a dinosaur theme for 4-5 year old

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DS2 is having a big dinosaur phase atm. I'm going to get him the Usbourn First Dinosaur encyclopedia for his 4th birthday, but can anyone recommend decent, readable storiesabout/ involving dinosaurs, or non fiction books intended for reading cover to cover (bedtime story fodder)?

He has Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs, which aren't really about dinosaurs, and Tyranosaur us Drip, which he likes a lit (but is cross it doesn't say Tyranosaur us Rex and that the pictures aren't "right" ... He also quite likes his big brother's Dinosaur Cove books, but still likes more in the way of colour illustrations than those offer.

Stomp Dinosaur Stomp by Margaret Aycliffe is good. Ds1 also likes How to Grow a Dinosaur by Caryl Hart.

Captain Flynn and the pirate dinosaur books by Giles Andrea are a favourite at bedtimes here.

We've just bought Gigantosaurus by Johnny Duddle, both my DS love it!

Excellent! Thank you all - will look those up and order :o

Second for Gigantosaurus! DS loves it but the ending annoys me

Dinosaurs love underpants is funny.
Paul Stickland does a dinosaur series but if your DS is after more factual books then they may not work for him...

We had one from the library called There's a Stegosaurus on the Stairs. It was a sort of funny non-fiction picture book with facts peppered through.

The How do dinosaurs.... series by Jane Yolen

There's lots of dino books, games etc on the Natural History Museum website. DS got some dino sticker books for Christmas. Still loves them at 6.5!

Rumble Roar Dinosaur, and Gnash Gnaw Dinosaur are both in rhyme and were popular here (they were both library books, but ds liked then so much that we bought them both). Another one is Usborne's Stories of Dinosaurs has three fiction stories.

This is not a story but my DS really likes Flip - o - Saurus which is a book of lots of different dinosaurs and you can flip over the head/middle section/tail to make random dinosaurs with weird names. Like Stego- docus - rex. It's got proper illustrations of the dinosaurs and a bit of info about each one.

www.amazon.co.uk/Flip-Saurus-Britta-Drehsen/dp/0789210614

Thanks everyone! Lots of good suggestions. I want to buy them for DS2 ' S 4th birthday, so some are a bit "young" to be buying new for that age (esp as he's my last child) rather than already have and still enjoy, if that makes sense - perhaps also because he has older siblings he is used to following a "proper" story - but looking up the suggestions is also bringing up other ideas my previous Amazon search didn't, so really useful!

DS (4) got a set called Dinosaur Zoom, Dinosaur Dig and.Dinosaur Rescue for Christmas and likes those. We have There's A Stegosaurus on the Stairs and got it as part of a set from the Book People - 4 books all about dinosaurs in that series. Tbh, his favourites are the dinosaur encyclopedias - he loves Planet Dinosaur (companion book to the TV show) and there are sort of stories in there which we read to him. Dinopedia by National Geographic is a big hit too and Dinosaurology. He is deeply deeply obsessed though and it's not that much fun to sit and read dinosaur encyclopedias to him every evening but he does love them.

I'd say the "How do dinosaurs..." series is perfect for 4 +.

Ah thanks Bikeski - it's sometimes hard to get the right "feel" for books just looking at Amazon descriptions and reviews, which is why it's good to ask here UK Amazon has reviews where people mention their 2 year olds enjoying the books, and I looked at the "go to bed" and "eat their food" titles which fitted with the toddler idea. However having read your comment I found them on the US site, which does say 3-7. We are British - German living in Germany though, and I am my kids only native English speaking contact day to day, so for that reason I usually avoid American English (looking on the American site I saw extracts, and the language was definitely American-English). That wouldn't matter at all if we lived in the UK (and I didn't think to mention it) but for our family it puts me off a little bit, for the younger age range (not so much for my older kids, with whom it's interesting to discuss different forms of English).

Thanks Alma, will look all those up!:o