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Children's ✦ Penny’s Take

Hiding Dinosaurs

Dan Moynihan · 2015
80/100
👍 Worth It

A genuinely funny, action-packed emergent reader with a premise — secret hatching dinosaurs that keep growing — that is perfectly calibrated to make a beginning reader feel rewarded for getting through each page. Kirkus praise and a Massachusetts Center for the Book designation are meaningful signals for a picture book debut. The resolution is thin, but that is a small complaint against something that does its primary job — getting kids to read — very well.

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Verdict receipt0–100
safety97
substance65
craft82
originality80
accuracy85
hype78
age-fit90
human-eye82
Penny’s verdict80
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