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The Dinosaur that Pooped A Football

Join Danny and Dinosaur at the Galaxy Cup football final! When the sneaky, cheating Saturn Slimers cover Danny’s favourite team in goo, Dino and Danny need to come up with a game plan...Can Dino’s rumbling tummy save the day?

With rip-roaring rhyme and laugh-out-loud silliness, the Dinosaur that Pooped series has sold over 1.5 million copies around the world!


Danny and Dino were really excited.
A big football final – and they were invited!
The Galaxy Cup was about to take place
on planet Galaxis, out in deep space.


This hilarious addition to the lift-the-flap series features a host of hidden surprises. The poop-filled adventure is written by bestselling author duo Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter, and brought to life by the proposterously talented Garry Parsons!

A brilliant addition to this ridiculously funny picture book series, which includes:

The Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas
The Dinosaur that Pooped a Planet
The Dinosaur that Pooped the Past
The Dinosaur that Pooped the Bed
The Dinosaur that Pooped a Princess
The Dinosaur that Pooped a Pirate

About Tom Fletcher

Tom Fletcher is one of the UK's most popular children's authors.

Tom's books have been translated into 42 languages and to date he has sold over 7 million copies of his books in the UK alone, and 10 million globally.

The Christmasaurus was the biggest debut children's novel of 2016 and was shortlisted for a British Book Award. Since then, Tom has published several more chart-topping children's novels, including The Christmasaurus and the Naughty List, The Creakers and the instant number-one bestseller The Danger Gang.

For younger readers, Tom writes the incredibly successful Who's in Your Book? picture-book series and is one half of the author duo behind the Dinosaur that Pooped picture-book series with bandmate Dougie Poynter.

For older readers, Tom co-authors the Eve of Man series with his wife, Giovanna Fletcher.

As well as his career as an author, Tom is also a founding member of the Brit Award-winning band McFly, which has sold over 10 million records worldwide.
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