Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Awe-some Days
Marilyn Singer · 2022
80/100
👍 Worth It
Marilyn Singer does something genuinely difficult here — she modulates from the joy of Purim to the solemnity of Holocaust Remembrance Day within a single collection, and pulls it off with craft that Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal all noticed. The inclusion of lesser-known holidays makes this unusually complete for its genre, and the prose commentary adds real educational weight beyond the poems.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Explicitly Jewish faith content — high value within intended audience, limited crossover appeal. We still scored it 80; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety90
substance80
craft84
originality78
accuracy85
hype72
age-fit86
human-eye82
Penny’s verdict80
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