Messy-o-saurus

Do you have a Messy-o-saurus living at your house? Maybe you have some Snivelling Snoogalas, or their friends, the Bouncing Boogalas?

Children will be captivated by the wild imaginings of this dinosaur-loving child, written by local children’s author Rachel Weston. The child blames made up creatures, like the Messy-o-saurus and the Twohorned Trumpeting Sea Rompster, for the mess she’s making around the house.

When asked what type of research Rachel did for this book, she replied, “No research. I had three little Messy-o-sauruses! Plenty of first-hand experience cleaning up the mess from children playing. The children of course are oblivious. They’re caught up in the wonderful energy of their creativeness and colourful imaginings. They dip in and out of imaginative play so easily, there are no boundaries and no rules, just the freedom to wander and make a mess where they will.”

This is Rachel’s fifth independently published children’s book in three years. It follows on from her popular picture book Bumblebee (2021) and her continuing sought-after first book Bumblebees Have Smelly Feet (2019).

Rachel home-schooled her three, now grown, children for ten years where reading books was at the heart of their schooling. During that time, Rachel confesses, there was lots of mess!

This highly visual, super fun picture book with playful sounding words is sure to be an on-repeat bedtime read for lots of little messy-o-sauruses up and down New Zealand.

Books are available from your local bookstore from 14th July, or Rachel’s website www. rachelweston.co.nz