Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Thankful Animals, Thankful Me
Steve Metzger · 2022
75/100
👍 Worth It
Steve Metzger pairs animal gratitude with moments toddlers recognize in their own lives, wrapped in rhyming couplets that make it easy to read aloud again and again. The illustrations are vivid and the concept is age-right, even if gratitude board books are a well-traveled genre. Award recognition and library adoption back up what the pages already show: it's a well-made little book.
✦ 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 safety88
Substance / usefulness74
Craft & writing81
Originality52
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers72
Age-fit82
👁 Human-eye gut-check75
Penny’s verdict75
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