Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Gobi: A Little Dog with a Big Heart (picture book)
Dion Leonard · 2018
🎙 Narrated by Dion Leonard and Simona Chitescu-Weik (per Audible/Amazon audiobook credit)
64/100
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Penny here: this true story of a scrappy stray dog who ran alongside an ultramarathoner across 155 miles of desert is a genuinely heartwarming, age-appropriate spin on a story that captured a lot of hearts the first time around. Just watch your cart carefully -- there are several similarly named 'Gobi'/'Finding Gobi' editions for different age groups, and you don't want to accidentally end up with the adult memoir instead of this picture book.
✦ 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: fine Credited to both author Dion Leonard and Simona Chitescu-Weik; confirm you're selecting the picture-book edition and not one of the several adult memoir audio editions.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety92
Substance / usefulness52
Craft & writing58
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy62
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit80
Human-eye read58
Penny’s verdict64
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