Jaime Gill

Read Small Creatures Among Great Beasts now!Were you a big dinosaur kid growing up?I was a dinosaur maniac from about two years old: I guzzled picture books about them. Tricaretops were my favourite and still are: I mean, three horns and a built-in shield⁠—that’s evolutionary perfection. My family encouraged me in my obsession and then regretted it. When I was about three, we lived in a small cottage in an ex-mining village rural in Northumberland, with stone walls which were a “feature” as real estates say. One morning my Mum woke up to find I’d got up two hours early and made a lovely surprise for her: I’d created a vast dinosaur panorama with crayons. There were triceratops, trees, T-Rexes and many lava-spewing volcanoes. My Mum wasn’t nearly as delighted as I’d hoped⁠—it’s murder getting crayon out of stone.Dinosaurs, sharks, trucks, or trains?No, I’m not giving up dinosaurs, sharks, or trains. You can melt down all trucks if you like, but the other three are - for different…