Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
The Truth about Old People
Elina Ellis · 2020
78/100
👍 Worth It
Ellis earned the Macmillan Prize for Illustration and it shows — her line work is expressive and genuinely funny, and the gap between what the child says and what the reader sees is perfectly timed on every spread. The Empathy Lab selection is deserved: this is a book that quietly dismantles ageism without a single lecture. Families who already own The Truth About Grandparents will find the premise familiar, but the execution is strong enough to justify both.
✦ 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
substance68
craft84
originality70
accuracy80
hype78
age-fit92
human-eye82
Penny’s verdict78
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