Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Margaret Wise Brown's Manners
Margaret Wise Brown · 2017
78/100
👍 Worth It
This posthumous Little Golden Book delivers exactly what it promises: a brief, charming, and effective manners lesson from one of picture books' most beloved voices, illustrated with warm animal characters. The opposite-pairs structure is simple but highly memorable for young children, and the Kirkus star signals genuine editorial quality. At 24 pages it covers ground quickly, but for a manners book aimed at preschoolers that brevity is a feature, not a flaw.
✦ 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
substance70
craft80
originality68
accuracy85
hype82
age-fit90
human-eye80
Penny’s verdict78
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