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Children's ✦ Penny’s Take

One More Time

Nancy Loewen · 2019
72/100
👍 Worth It

For the board book target of one-to-three-year-olds, the scooter-and-perseverance premise is pitch-perfect — toddlers grasp falling down and trying again as lived experience, and the Bright Start series gives caregivers actual language for those conversations rather than just passive story time. It won't hold up as the years pass since the concept is simple by design, but as a tool for building emotional vocabulary in very young children it does exactly what it sets out to do.

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Verdict receipt0–100
safety98
substance70
craft72
originality68
accuracy78
hype68
age-fit92
human-eye70
Penny’s verdict72
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