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Penny & Pip

Candace Fleming

Illustrator: Eric Rohmann

Ages: 5 & Under

Published: 2023

Publisher: Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 978-1-6659-1331-7

Keywords: Dinosaur babies, children and dinosaurs, museums, class field trips, friendship, imagination

On a class field trip to the natural history museum, Penny, a brown-skinned child, meets Pip, a newly hatched dinosaur, and a beautiful friendship ensues. Imaginative pencil and digitally colored illustrations.