Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
My Family, Your Family
Laura Henry-Allain MBE · 2023
62/100
👎 Skip It
A warm, well-made picture book for ages 3-7 with strong back-matter resources, but its explicit ideological framing — presenting same-sex parent families as fully equivalent to traditional families without any religious or faith context — makes it a poor fit for this site's faith-family audience. The craft and intent are genuine, but the worldview mismatch is significant enough that families with traditional values will want to look elsewhere. The safety flags here reflect a real content consideration, not a minor quibble.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Same-sex-parent families presented as equivalent to traditional family · No religious framework provided · Ideologically inclusive framing, not neutral. We still scored it 62; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety68
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing75
Originality68
Evidence & accuracy75
Hype vs delivers68
Age-fit85
👁 Human-eye gut-check71
Penny’s verdict62
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