Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
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Aimee L. Ruland · 2019
68/100
👎 Skip It
Aimee Ruland's balloon-and-breathwork picture book is genuinely useful for children who need help naming and releasing difficult emotions, and the Midwest Book Review's Reviewer's Choice recognition reflects real practical merit. Faith families should know the author's background is Reiki and New Age healing — the book itself stays with breathing imagery and doesn't teach those practices, but the philosophical roots are there.
✦ 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: author background in Reiki and Applied Metapsychology (New Age healing modalities) — faith families should note, though book itself stays with breathwork and emotional imagery. We still scored it 68; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety68
substance65
craft66
originality62
accuracy70
hype58
age-fit80
human-eye68
Penny’s verdict68
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