BR2-11: The Surprise

"Now he's got a name," says mum. "Dacty sounds nice. It suits him." (p. 12)

It's Saturday evening. Roger, Helen and their parents are playing cards in the living room. Suddenly the telephone rings. That was their Aunt Elizabeth and she will come back from Greenland. The next morning she came and had a very strange present for Roger and Helen. It's a big egg. One day the egg cracked and appeared a long beak from inside. It looks like a bird, but it hasn't got feathers. It was actually a pterodactyl, which is a type of dinosaur. It was named Dacty. Six months pass and Dacty is very big, so he lived in the museum. At midnigt Dacty sees lights moving. It was thieves and he caught them. He became famous overnight.


Gerngross, G. (2007). The Surprise. Helbling Languages.