Dinosaur Police Award-winning author by Sarah McIntyre (author and illustrator)

Little boys love the POLICE! But there are hardly any picture books out there covering this topic – you can pretty much only find non-fiction titles. 3-6 year old boys play cops and robbers almost on a daily basis and are fascinated by the subject matter. Every boy’s toybox contains several police cars, but if you try to find them a police picture book you hit a brick wall. Sarah McIntyre would cover this subject matter with heaps of humour and would be able to keep things light-hearted. We’d leave out guns and jail, but there might be an exciting car chase involving a police car and a robber’s get-away car. The police officers would be dinosaurs – another sure-fire favourite – with different personalities, body shapes and uniforms from around the world, which would address the ‘international’ challenge. Imagine a Stegosaurus sheriff, a Brontosaurus bobby, T. rex in a swanky Italian police uniform. I’m proposing Sarah to write this in order to get the best out of her (as per There’s a Shark in the Bath).

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407145587

Date published

May 7th, 2015

Other details

32 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Sarah McIntyre

Sarah McIntyre was born in Seattle. She studied Russian literature and art history at Bryn Mawr College and then earned a distinction while doing her Master’s degree in Illustration at Camberwell College of the Arts in London. She brings her love of travel and adventure to her work, and loves the thrill of being a perpetual tourist in London, where she has lived since 1999.

It was whilst studying for her MA that Sarah became interested in comics.‘I had loved comics as a kid, such as Calvin & Hobbes and Archie, but I had sort of lost my way as an adult, thinking comics were mostly about superheroes, which I didn’t like so much. When I was introduced to adult comics by people such as Posy Simmonds and Craig Thompson, I knew I had found a whole new world.’

She was commissioned by David Fickling to produce a comic strip for the ground breaking DFC. Her creation; Vern & Lettuce was immensely popular and Sarah used both her blog and Facebook to attract new friends and fans everyday, gaining the attention of The Guardian who featured the strip in their The Comic section on Saturdays.

Her picture book with Giles Andreae, Morris the Mankiest Monster, introduced the world to a loveable monster with stomach-turning personal habits, and won both the Sheffield and Bishop’s Stortford Children’s Book Awards, as voted by children. Sarah has gone on to create many more picture books including the very successful You Can’t Eat a Princess and the follow-up, You Can’t Scare a Princess!

In 2013, Sarah teamed up with Philip Reeve for Oliver and the Seawigs, bonkers fiction for young readers crammed with brilliant illustrations. This was swiftly followed by Cakes in Space, and Pugs of the Frozen North which won the Independent Bookshop Week Children’s Book of the Year Award.

Find out more about Sarah at www.jabberworks.co.uk