Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato
Lauren Child · 2012
91/100
👍 Worth It
This Kate Greenaway Medal winner earns every bit of its reputation — Lauren Child's mixed-media collage illustrations are genuinely unlike anything else on the picture-book shelf, and the premise of renaming vegetables as exotic fantasy foods is both funny and practically useful for anyone reading to a picky eater. The Charlie and Lola sibling dynamic is warm and real, and the book has a decades-long track record of actually helping real children try new foods. A standout.
✦ 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
substance85
craft95
originality96
accuracy92
hype88
age-fit94
human-eye93
Penny’s verdict91
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