Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
How to Catch a Dinosaur
Adam Wallace · 2019
75/100
👍 Worth It
Loud, funny, and easy to love at a read-aloud — Elkerton's kinetic art keeps kids locked in while Wallace's rhymes sneak in genuine STEAM thinking without ever making it feel like homework. It is formulaic within its series, and if your child has read three other How to Catch books the structure will be familiar, but the execution is solid enough that familiar does not mean boring. A reliable crowd-pleaser for classrooms and bedtime alike.
✦ 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
safety98
substance62
craft75
originality55
accuracy80
hype68
age-fit85
human-eye74
Penny’s verdict75
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