Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 📱 Kindle
Dinosaurs
Rachel Ignotofsky · 2025
86/100
👍 Worth It
This one's the real deal — a gorgeous, ambitious sweep through 4.5 billion years of Earth's history that earned a starred Booklist review, from an illustrator who knows how to make big science feel inviting. It's denser than your average dinosaur picture book, so it rewards a kid who's ready to sit with it, but the payoff is a far richer education than most titles on this list offer.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness88
Craft & writing88
Originality80
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers70
Age-fit72
Human-eye read85
Penny’s verdict86
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