Oxford Reading Tree: TreeTops All Stars: Cosmo for Captain

by Jonathan Emmett, Chris Mould (Illustrator)

Features: Reading Consultants - Leveled Text

32 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2006

About the author

Jonathan Emmett was born in Leicestershire in 1965, the son of a factory fitter and a primary school teacher.

Jonathan loved books from an early age and some of his earliest memories are of visiting his local library. The picture books that he borrowed then, including Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss and Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson have had a great influence on the picture books that he now writes.

It was while Jonathan was at college, studying architecture, that he first started developing his own illustrated texts, illustrating poems and lyrics that he’d written. Pleased with the results, he found himself spending more and more time on writing and illustration. Although he qualified as an architect, he found the job unsatisfying and began pursuing a career in children's books in his spare time, eventually going full-time in 1995, a few months before his thirtieth birthday.

As well as writing picture books such as Bringing Down the Moon, Someone Bigger, Pigs Might Fly and Ruby Flew Too, Jonathan also writes and paper-engineers pop-up books. His books have won several awards including the Red House Children’s Book Award “Book for Younger Children” for Pigs Might Fly and the Kiekeboekprijs for Bringing Down the Moon.

He now lives in Nottingham with his wife, Rachel, and children, Max and Laura.

You can visit Jonathan’s website atjonathanemmett.com

Reviews

[Samantha Penrose · Rating 4 out of 5]

This works really well as a read aloud book. My kids got a kick out of me using different voices for the five dino characters...cosmo, patty, steggs, tyro and tricky.
This story is about sportsmanship, bravery, friendship and empathy.

[Randall · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked how they tricked the T-Rex.