Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Steven Spielberg Presents We're Back!
Cathy East Dubowski · 1993
60/100
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This is a 1993 movie tie-in novelization of a film that got a mixed reception, and novelizations like this one live or die on nostalgia for the source material. The color illustrations and dinosaur adventure premise are genuinely fun for early readers who know the film, but there is no independent literary value here and the villain's fear-circus is a real scare factor for the youngest audience.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety72
substance52
craft55
originality35
accuracy70
hype58
age-fit68
human-eye55
Penny’s verdict60
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