Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs (Harry and the Dinosaurs)

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Harry and the Dinos have set up camp in the living room and it reminds Mom of the time when she went camping with the Nature Guides. She shows them her collection of Guide badges and it inspires Harry and the Dinos to go on a real camping trip and earn their own badges. The intrepid explorers head to Dino World where they embark on an adventure to find The Lost Falls and get some badges along the way. But with pesky bugs and scary monsters to contend with, Harry and the Dinos learn that it's not always as easy as it might seem to earn a badge! When Harry and the Dinos learn that groups of stars make pictures called constellations, they decide to investigate further! Space Captain Harry and his Dino crew boldly go where no dino has gone before: Dino World!

Harry isn't allowed to join Sam's band because he's not very good at playing the drums. He goes to dino-world where he and the dinos gather together to play various percussion instruments. Pterence leaves the group because he can't keep time so he goes off to a cave by himself. He learns to play some great rhythms based on the sounds of nature around him. Harry and the dinos miss Pterence and go to find him, they are very impressed by what he has learned. Harry is frustrated at losing games to Sam, Mom, and Nana, so he visits Dino-World where he makes up many games and wins every time. To find out who is the ultimate winner, the dinos invent a new complicated game, but after the game has taken them on a fun journey all over Dino-World they realise that winning isn't important as long as they are having fun. A difference is that the book series includes an Anchisaurus as one of Harry's dinosaurs while the TV series, for unknown reasons, does not. Read some of the other books that feature Harry and his dinosaurs. Could you make up a new adventure for them?

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Harry is upset to learn that he must return his library book so decides to hide the book in Dino-World. Although Harry and the dinos try to entertain the book, it is unhappy in Dino-World and tries to escape. Eventually the book persuades Harry to return it to the library where there are lots more books waiting to be read. Inside this brilliant collection of resources, you’ll find everything you need to support your lessons on the popular children’s book by Ian Whybrow. Harry is disappointed to find that he is not able to join in with any of the activities his family are taking part in at home, so he decides to go to Dino-world to invent his own clubs, which only himself and the dinosaurs can join - i.e. Bungee jumping, mess Jimmy cooking...

Harry is reluctant to have a bath so he goes to Dino-World where he endeavours to become as dirty and stinky as he possibly can. He becomes so repulsively filthy that even the dinosaurs don't want to play with him and he is even crowned King of the Swamp. However, when faced with losing his hair as a result of his uncleanness, Harry decides a bath would actually be quite nice after all. Whilst playing in the yard with Charley, Harry insists on being first on the swing, and then manages to destroy her sandcastle by being boisterous in the sandbox. Charley goes home annoyed, so Nana gives Harry a book on King Arthur and his Knights so that he can learn about good manners. But after reading the book, Harry is more interested in knightly activities like burping, jousting and battling with Dragons, than chivalry and kindness, so he goes to Dino World to play at being a knight. When Harry is imprisoned by a selfish Dragon, he learns that good manners are very important. This news story from last year reminder me of this book: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/..., and I will definitely be reading this to my little ones. I hope they enjoy it as much as I did.

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Harry has a nightmare in which he is chased by a monster, so he goes to Dino-World in an attempt to hide from it. But because the monster is created by Harry's imagination it materializes in Dino-world and terrorizes Harry and the dinos until Harry imagines the monster as harmless and friendly. It's snowing and some of Harry's neighbours are moving house. Harry and Charley love the idea of being removals' men and, along with the Dinos, decide to go to Dino World to see if anyone needs the assistance of Harry's Moving Crew. They arrive just in time to help Mr Snow who is moving down the hill to a brand new igloo. Mr Snow's mischievous penguin friends also lend a hand to ensure the move goes as smoothly as possible...! Harry and Charley have their football confiscated because they are unable to play football together without arguing. They go to Dino-World to find a replacement football and have another match. Charley is not very good at Football so Harry becomes vociferously frustrated with her and then sulks off on his own. While Harry is alone reflecting on his behaviour, the dinos help Charley to improve her football skills. He ends up apologising for being so mean to Charley and the story ends with the pair reconciled and enjoying a friendly game of football in Harry's garden.

When Harry is disappointed that he can't have what he wants for breakfast he goes to Dino-world where he has created a diner and appointed himself as head chef. Harry starts to feel the pressure of running a diner when the dinosaurs start complaining about the quality of the food. In an attempt to please everybody, Harry bakes a special dino-cake, but this turns out to be very unpopular. The episode ends with Harry returning home for some of Nana's cooking which he thoroughly enjoys.When Harry is disappointed that none of his wishes come true in the real world, the dinosaurs take him to visit the wishing well in Dino-World where wishes are readily granted. The story ends with Harry wishing he hadn't wished for anything in the first place! Harry decides he wants to be a zookeeper when he grows up, but he can't wait until then so he opens his very own zoo in Dino-World. Harry befriends a young elephant, and with the help of his friends, endeavours to teach it how to trumpet.