Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Thankful
Eileen Spinelli · 2017
68/100
👎 Skip It
Eileen Spinelli's community-helpers gratitude tour is gentle and rhyming and completely harmless, and Kirkus was right to call it 'low-key.' The two child characters weaving through different professions is a charming structural idea, but it stays firmly in mood-piece territory rather than building toward anything. Fine for a classroom gratitude unit, but families with stronger options in the category can pass.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance58
craft70
originality60
accuracy78
hype62
age-fit82
human-eye65
Penny’s verdict68
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