Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
The Electric Guitar
Blake Hoena · 2021
78/100
👍 Worth It
A snappy graphic nonfiction ride through a century of electric guitar history that covers inventors and iconic players with equal enthusiasm. The format is genuinely clever — comics panels make the timeline digestible for reluctant readers — and the back matter earns its keep. Thirty-two pages means you get the highlights, not the deep dive, but for a middle-schooler who just discovered Led Zeppelin this is exactly right.
✦ 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
safety98
substance72
craft78
originality70
accuracy82
hype65
age-fit88
human-eye75
Penny’s verdict78
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