Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle · 2009
91/100
👍 Worth It
A Publishers Weekly starred review is not given lightly, and Little Blue Truck earns every bit of it — Schertle's rhyming text is irresistible read-aloud material, and McElmurry's gouache illustrations have the warm, golden quality of a book that wants to be read a hundred times. The moral lands without a single preachy sentence: Blue's kindness is simply repaid. One of the finest picture books of the past two decades and a confident first purchase for any toddler's shelf.
✦ 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
substance88
craft95
originality82
accuracy92
hype90
age-fit95
human-eye94
Penny’s verdict91
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