Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
In the Time of the Dinosaurs
Joanna Cole · 2012
🎙 Narrated by Polly Adams and Cassandra Morris (per Amazon/Audible listing for the Scholastic Audio edition)
72/100
👍 Worth It
Ms. Frizzle takes her class straight into the Cretaceous, and like every Magic School Bus book, it sneaks real paleontology in under cover of a wildly fun field trip. The multi-narrator Scholastic Audio production leans into that classroom energy, which makes it an easy, engaging listen. It's a franchise you can trust, even without a dedicated review of this specific installment.
✦ 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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🎙 Narration: good Multi-voice production known for lively, classroom-energy narration true to Ms. Frizzle's character.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing76
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy74
Hype vs delivers58
Age-fit80
Human-eye read72
Penny’s verdict72
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