Dinosaurs · Size · Confidence
The Smallest Dinosaur in the Valley
Everyone in the herd is enormous. Compsognathus is not.
- Age range
- Ages 3-7
- Reading time
- 5 minutes
- Category
- Dinosaur stories
What happens
A tiny Compsognathus keeps getting stepped over, sat on and generally not noticed — until a rockslide blocks the only path out of the valley and the herd needs somebody who fits through a gap the size of a lunchbox.
Read the opening
Listen to this story
In the valley there lived a herd of Brachiosaurus, who were fifty feet long, and a herd of Triceratops, who were extremely solid, and one Compsognathus named Pin, who was the size of a chicken and considerably less respected.
Nobody was unkind to Pin. That was almost the problem. They simply did not see him, and stepped over him the way you step over a puddle.
Then, on an ordinary Thursday, half the cliff came down across the valley mouth, and the herd discovered that all fifty feet of a Brachiosaurus is no use at all when the only way out is a gap the size of a lunchbox.
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Why this one is worth your time
- Uses real species names, which dinosaur-obsessed children love reading aloud.
- Being small becomes the solution, not a thing to grow out of.
- No predators, no peril beyond a rockslide — safe for young or anxious listeners.
Talk about it afterward
- What is something you can do because you're small?
- How should the herd say sorry to Pin?
What if your child were the hero?