Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Ten Terrible Dinosaurs
Paul Stickland · 2000
76/100
👍 Worth It
The Dinosaur Roar! connection gives these characters instant recognizability with toddler audiences, and Stickland's cartoonlike art — expressive dinosaurs on generous white space — is genuinely appealing to very young children. The read-aloud rhymes are built for participation, and nearly three decades of reprints tell you something about the book's staying power. Not original in concept, but reliably excellent in execution.
✦ 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
safety100
substance65
craft78
originality58
accuracy85
hype76
age-fit95
human-eye78
Penny’s verdict76
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