Ginger and the Vegesaurs: Pea-Rex Rollercoaster

The strongly constructed hand sized board book is an episode in the highly acclaimed and popular ABC series called Ginger and the vegesaurs, which will ensure kids will pick it up. Brightly coloured, with funny images of a variety of fruit and vegetables as the main characters whose story we follow, the book has instant appeal.

In Pea-Rex rollercoaster, the friends meet a herd of Broccolisaurus, and Ginger is amazed at their size. Wasabi and Minty run up the brook’s head and slide down its back. Split does not follow the others, and Ginger has the opportunity to talk about being scared and allays some of Split’s fear by getting closer to the baby Brocc, hoping to introduce them to each other. Of course, this does not  eventuate as the baby Brocc is scared of Split.

But lessons are learnt by the end of this disarming story.  Aimed at younger children, the text needs an older child or adult to read it aloud, but what fun!

I love the images of the different fruit and vegetables as dinosaurs, so melding two things that kids love, fruit and veg and dinosaurs.

Great fun, lots to laugh at and a tie in with a beloved TV series will ensure these books are never left on the shelf. 

Themes: Dinosaurs, Humour, Friendship, TV tie in, Read aloud.

Fran Knight