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Children's ✦ Penny’s Take

Good Night Families

Adam Gamble · 2017
68/100
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Warm illustrations and a gentle bedtime format from a trusted series — for families who want to normalize diverse family structures for very young children, this does that simply and sweetly. Readers from faith traditions that don't include same-sex families in their definition of family should know this content is explicitly present.

✦ 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: Depicts same-sex parent families as normal family units — conflicts with faith-traditional definitions of family. We still scored it 68; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety65
substance60
craft68
originality58
accuracy80
hype80
age-fit88
human-eye65
Penny’s verdict68
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