Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
The Rose and the Thistle
Douglas W. Fellows · 2019
62/100
👎 Skip It
A sincere and personal faith offering written from a place of genuine conviction, and for its exact audience — Christian families with young children in Sunday school settings — the rose-and-thistle imagery for selflessness may land beautifully. Outside that niche it has little critical record to lean on, and the theological specificity narrows the reach considerably.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: explicitly faith-based content; limited audience outside Christian contexts. We still scored it 62; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance58
craft58
originality60
accuracy70
hype72
age-fit75
human-eye55
Penny’s verdict62
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