THE NINE MINUTES / 04BOOK 04 · YOUR COMPANION GUIDE
The Collar and the Key
Kit Ossory · 13, defector
A girl comes up the flooded causeway in the dark with an eighteen-foot raptor and a steel band bolted round its throat.
Keep this page beside the book. Follow its people and places, try its mission, then return after the last chapter.
BEFORE YOU READ / THREE PLACES TO BEGIN
An agreement can change.
Play the book · A two-minute Roost challenge
Trust is offered, never fitted.
Room to choose
Two decisions. A place on the crew. Try a short challenge inspired by The Collar and the Key.
A place on the crew.
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A spoiler-free companion activity, not an extract from the book.
EIGHTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS / ONE FOR EACH CHAPTER
Small things.
Whole stories.
Look for the objects your chapter leaves behind. Choose a drawing to take it into Storytime, where you can look closer while someone reads aloud.
OFF THE PAGE
Look closer.
Try it yourself.
Every volume pairs dinosaur evidence with a hands-on build. Both are free to read here.
Utahraptor
Explore the evidence, the discoveries and what the story made up.
Open the Field Notes ↗MAKE ITBuild something that works.
A gate knot that holds while you want it to and falls apart in your hand when you do not.
Open the activity ↗Come back after the last chapter.
Mark this book finished to open its reflection and work towards its passport seal.
AFTER READING
How can you tell whether an animal has a real choice? Find a moment that shows it.
Talk it through, draw an answer, or find a passage that changed your mind.