Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Standin' Tall Forgiveness
Janeen Brady · 1981
65/100
👎 Skip It
Brady's multi-modal approach — story plus song plus activity — is genuinely well-suited to how young children absorb moral lessons, and forgiveness is a virtue worth teaching explicitly. But at 24 pages with a strong LDS community orientation, this is a niche product with limited availability outside its original market. Families already in that tradition will love it; everyone else has easier paths to the same lesson.
✦ 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: LDS-rooted content; some elements specific to Latter-day Saint family culture. We still scored it 65; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance60
craft65
originality62
accuracy80
hype65
age-fit82
human-eye62
Penny’s verdict65
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