Dino vil gerne ned til floden og lege med sin mor, men hun har travlt. Øv, mumler Din og sætter sig til at surmule. Hans mave begynder også at rumle og det hele er noget skidt, men så sker der noget. Dino kommer til at prutte. Og så begynder der at ske noget.
Already as a child he was an avid cartoonist, and he succeeded in making comics that were printed in various underground magazines.
In the mid-1980s, he began writing stories on a newly purchased typewriter. The beginning of the novel Zambesi, which twelve years later - in 2000 - received the Book Forum's debutant award, was written at the time. He also wrote picture book texts, and it was with the picture book "Dino rejser til byen", that Søren Jessen made his debut as a writer with in 1990.
Since then he has written and illustrated many picture books, chapter books and novels.