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  Dinah crept away, feeling very empty. She wandered back to the iguanodon, sucking her thumb.

  "I wish I had a mum to make me a packed lunch," said Dinah.

  A hand reached out and patted her on the shoulder.

  A huge scaly hand with a spiked thumb!

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  First published in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Children's Books A Random House Group Company

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  For Bunny, with lots of love

  CONTENTS

  Chapter One 3

  Chapter Two 14

  Chapter Three 31

  Chapter Four 44

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  Chapter One

  Dinah woke up early.

  She didn't feel like getting

  washed. She didn't feel like

  getting dressed. She didn't feel like going to school.

  "Boring," said

  Dinah.

  Dinah did not feel like

  breakfast.

  Not cornflakes and milk.

  "Boring," said Dinah.

  She made herself a j a m

  sandwich.

  "Yummy," said Dinah,

  rubbing her tummy.

  She fed the teddy on her

  nightie, too.

  Dinah wanted a drink but the

  lemonade was right at the top of the cupboard with Dad's beer.

  Dinah couldn't reach.

  Then she saw Dad's window-

  cleaning ladder.

  5

  Dinah nearly reached the

  lemonade.

  But then the ladder slipped.

  D a d woke up early, too.

  Dinah hated it when Dad got

  cross. She didn't have a mum or

  any brothers or sisters. Dinah just had her dad.

  "How am I going to clean the windows now?" said Dad. "And take that thumb out of your

  mouth, baby."

  Dinah always sucked her

  thumb when she was sad. Her

  special sucking thumb was

  starting to get a bit pointed.

  8

  Dinah was still sucking her

  thumb when she went to school.

  The boys teased her. Dinah got

  cross. There was a fight.

  Then Miss Smith got cross and

  sent Dinah indoors.

  Dinah had a little wash.

  Dinah's best friend, Judy,

  ended up having a little wash,

  too.

  Miss Smith got very cross and

  said Dinah wouldn't go on the

  school trip to the museum if she wasn't careful.

  "A museum?" Dinah muttered.

  "Boring."

  11

  Dinah's best friend, Judy, was

  still very damp. She didn't feel like sitting next to Dinah on the minibus. She sat next to

  Danielle, and they kept giggling together.

  Dinah had to sit next to Miss

  Smith.

  When they got to the museum

  Judy went off arm in arm with

  Danielle.

  "I don't care," said Dinah, sucking her thumb.

  13

  Chapter Two

  Dinah cheered up when they

  went into a special dinosaur

  exhibition. Dinosaurs were huge

  monsters who lived millions of

  years ago.

  Dinah liked the look of

  dinosaurs.

  14

  Some of the dinosaurs were

  very fierce and vicious. Judy and Danielle squealed. Dinah didn't

  mind a bit.

  The dinosaurs had huge long

  names to match their size.

  Dinah wasn't very good at

  reading but she found she had

  no problem spelling out

  brontosaurus . . .

  . . . and tyrannosaurus and

  triceratops.

  She particularly liked the

  iguanodon. It had a funny

  pointed thumb spike. Perhaps the iguanodon sucked

  its thumb, too.

  Miss Smith got cross because

  Dinah kept lagging behind.