Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George · 2017
🎙 Narrated by Michael Crouch
84/100
👍 Worth It
A true classic for good reason - Newbery Honor pedigree, decades of love from readers, and a rich, unsentimental take on self-reliance that still holds up. There's matter-of-fact animal trapping and skinning that could catch a sensitive kid off guard, but it's not gratuitous. Michael Crouch's Audie-winning narration makes this one an easy, strong recommend to listen to as well as read.
✦ 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 Crouch is an Audie Award-winning narrator with multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards for this Listening Library edition.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety78
Substance / usefulness88
Craft & writing90
Originality82
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers75
Age-fit78
Human-eye read88
Penny’s verdict84
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