Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
The Tinker's Daughter
Wendy Lawton · 2002
78/100
👍 Worth It
Wendy Lawton does something genuinely difficult here: she makes a blind child in seventeenth-century England compelling without making disability the whole story. Mary Bunyan's faith journey is woven into real historical circumstances — her father's imprisonment, the family's hardship — and the Focus on the Family review's praise for avoiding triteness is earned. This is one of the stronger entries in the faith-historical-fiction space for preteens.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance76
craft78
originality75
accuracy78
hype62
age-fit82
human-eye80
Penny’s verdict78
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