Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Kindness of Hearts
Bonnie Krum · 2022
60/100
👎 Skip It
Thirty years of classroom experience behind this is a real credential, and the read-aloud premise is warm and purposeful. But it comes through a vanity press with no editorial gatekeeping and no independent reviews, so quality of execution is unverifiable — in a picture-book space where craft of language and illustration matters enormously, that gap is hard to overlook.
✦ 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
Faith & family safety98
Substance / usefulness58
Craft & writing55
Originality52
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers72
Age-fit80
👁 Human-eye gut-check52
Penny’s verdict60
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