Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Great Grandma Is Getting Old
Penelope Dyan · 2010
52/100
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The topic — seeing a great-grandmother's beauty and warmth rather than her age — is rare and lovely, and families navigating an elder's decline will appreciate that this book exists. But reviewers flag both the illustration quality and the rhyme execution as amateur, and the self-publishing context means no editorial quality control caught those rough edges. The sentiment is right; the craft is not quite there.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance55
craft38
originality65
accuracy70
hype60
age-fit72
human-eye42
Penny’s verdict52
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