Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
The Kindness Book
Todd Parr · 2019
66/100
👍 Worth It
Todd Parr's bold art and one-line kindness prompts are exactly right for toddler storytime — simple, cheerful, and easy to act on. The listicle format means there's no narrative arc or deep character modeling, so it teaches by listing rather than showing. Perfectly functional for the 2-to-6 crowd in a classroom setting, just don't expect it to stick the way a story does.
✦ 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 safety81
Substance / usefulness58
Craft & writing72
Originality52
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers72
Age-fit88
👁 Human-eye gut-check65
Penny’s verdict66
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