Synopsis: Maisie Jones and the Dinosaur Bones is a fun, feminist, fossil-filled adventure that tells all young children: follow your dreams and you’ll find a way. From the bestselling team behind A Dress With Pockets, Lily Murray and Jenny Løvlie.
Maisie Jones lives by the sea, and can always be seen out searching the shore for treasures that she sells in her family’s fossil shop. She wants to make a big discovery – to find her very own dinosaur bones. But when she does find something spectacular, a stuffy man in a top hat steals her discovery, and tries to claim it for himself! The race is on – Maisie must track down the pompous professor and make sure everyone knows that it was Maisie Jones who found the dinosaur bones!
Inspired by the real-life story of palaeontologist Mary Anning, and with a bonus page all about her discoveries at the back, Maisie Jones and the Dinosaur Bones is the perfect book for treasure hunters and big dreamers.
Release Date: 27th June 2024
Genres/Themes: Picture Book, Dinosaurs, Bones, Archeology, Historical, Memoir/Biography, Treasure, Family, Crime, Museums, Palaeontologist,
Pages: 32
Thank you so much to Macmillan Children’s Books and Netgalley for the ebook to read and review.
Review: Maisie Jones loves dreaming about finding dinosaur fossils on the shores where she lives, she digs and digs and most days finds nothing. Then after a mean man drops by her father’s store she becomes more determined to find some, and find some she does.
This was a fun story, I loved the way it was written, I also really liked Maisie, she wanted so badly to find the bones she’d been dreaming about and was starting to feel really dejected that she had only found small ones, but with the guidance of her Gran managed to keep pushing herself until she got a big discovery.
The illustrations were so incredible to look at, so much going on within the images from inside her dads store with the children everywhere, the bones and other things all over the place, to her dreaming about the different dinosaurs seeing them all together, then to her finding her discovery and the big museum she finds herself in. There was so much to look at.
I loved finding out the additional facts at at then end about Mary Anning in which was the inspiration for this story, I really loved getting to learn about her and all she went through, living this dream that our protagonist in the story had, but for real and how hard it was for her.
This is such a fun story, it was easy to read and flows really beautifully, the illustrations are so wonderful to look at and it’s imaginative a great read for young ones, especially young ones that love dinosaurs themselves.
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