Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Invisible Inkling
Emily Jenkins · 2011
🎙 Narrated by Michael Goldstrom
78/100
👍 Worth It
A sweet, funny chapter book that sneaks real emotional depth — loneliness after a best friend moves away — underneath a whimsical invisible-creature premise, and Kirkus and Cybils both backed it up. The bully subplot is handled gently without being preachy. The narration is a genuine highlight: Michael Goldstrom is an Earphones Award-winning narrator, so this is very much worth the listen.
✦ 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: excellent Michael Goldstrom is a Juilliard-trained, multiple Earphones Award-winning narrator praised for a warm read.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness75
Craft & writing80
Originality70
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit85
Human-eye read80
Penny’s verdict78
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