Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Each Kindness
Jacqueline Woodson · 2014
🎙 Narrated by Nikki M. James (original Weston Woods audiobook edition); a separate 2026 Listening Library edition is narrated by author Jacqueline Woodson herself
85/100
👍 Worth It
This one stays with you the way the best picture books do — Chloe never gets to make things right with Maya, and that ache is the whole point. It's a Coretta Scott King Honor and Jane Addams Peace Award winner for good reason, spare and honest rather than preachy, though the unresolved ending is worth a follow-up chat with little ones. The narration is solid, though know there are two different audio editions floating around.
✦ 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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🎙 Narration: good Two audiobook editions exist with different narrators; the original Nikki M. James reading has the more consistent positive track record.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness85
Craft & writing90
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers80
Age-fit70
Human-eye read85
Penny’s verdict85
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