Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Effective Communication Skills
Marsha Ludden · 1992
48/100
👎 Skip It
This is a competent, exercise-driven communication-skills textbook for adult and vocational learners — fine for a workplace-training course, but it has nothing to do with children's reading. Worth flagging to whoever's sorting the catalog: it's filed under 'Children's' here, and it clearly doesn't belong in that pillar.
✦ 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: Pillar mismatch: adult/vocational text listed under 'Children's' — flag to site editor. We still scored it 48; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness62
Craft & writing58
Originality42
Evidence & accuracy52
Hype vs delivers58
Age-fit20
Human-eye read48
Penny’s verdict48
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