Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
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Susan Boller · 2025
62/100
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A disability-inclusive protagonist with an empathic gift is genuinely rare in picture books, and the author's background as a para educator keeps the portrayal grounded. At twenty-five pages it is brief, self-published, and too new (2025) to have a critical track record — but for classrooms and families specifically seeking disability representation in social-emotional learning, it fills a real gap.
✦ 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
Faith & family safety94
Substance / usefulness56
Craft & writing54
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy54
Hype vs delivers52
Age-fit71
👁 Human-eye gut-check65
Penny’s verdict62
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