Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Survival in Space
David Long · 2020
81/100
👍 Worth It
David Long turns the Apollo 13 crisis into a page-turning narrative that keeps facts front and center without ever losing the human drama of three astronauts willing their way home. The Barrington Stoke format was built for reluctant and dyslexic readers, and Stefano Tambellini's diagrams make the engineering comprehensible to kids who might otherwise bounce off the subject. A Blue Peter award-winner who clearly knows how to hold a young reader's attention.
✦ 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
safety97
substance80
craft82
originality73
accuracy88
hype75
age-fit90
human-eye82
Penny’s verdict81
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