Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
The Literary Crowd
Kitty Benedict · 2000
58/100
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A solid classroom reference that covers 150 women writers across history, but the entries are necessarily thin at 80 pages for that many subjects, and the book is now over 25 years old with no updates to the literary canon. It was designed as curriculum support rather than a compelling read, and it shows. Useful for a school library shelf but not something most readers would seek out today.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety85
substance55
craft58
originality55
accuracy62
hype45
age-fit68
human-eye52
Penny’s verdict58
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