Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
There's a Dinosaur in the Park!
Rodney Martin · 1987
57/100
👎 Skip It
The imagination-in-the-park premise is sweet and the friendly-dinosaur payoff is perfectly calibrated for young children, but the dossier confirms this is a slim, out-of-print 1987 title with minimal critical footprint and very hard-to-find availability. There are dozens of better-illustrated, more widely available imagination-themed picture books doing the same work more memorably.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety98
substance48
craft55
originality52
accuracy65
hype55
age-fit82
human-eye50
Penny’s verdict57
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