Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Fortunately
Remy Charlip · 2017
82/100
👍 Worth It
Remy Charlip's alternating fortunate-unfortunate structure is one of the most elegantly simple storytelling engines in picture book history, and sixty years of staying in print alongside a School Library Journal Top 100 placement tells you this one has genuine staying power. It is more word game than narrative, but that is precisely its genius — children immediately want to create their own version.
✦ 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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Verdict receipt0–100
safety98
substance75
craft88
originality90
accuracy88
hype85
age-fit92
human-eye85
Penny’s verdict82
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