Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
The Very Tiny Baby
Sylvie Kantorovitz · 2014
82/100
👍 Worth It
Jacob's crayon-style drawings doing the emotional work for him is a picture-book device that's both clever and authentic — it mirrors how children actually process what they can't yet say. Kirkus praised it and librarians and family therapists have put it to real use, because a picture book that addresses the NICU from a sibling's perspective is genuinely rare. This is a targeted book for a specific family situation, and within that lane it does its job beautifully.
✦ 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
safety97
substance80
craft85
originality85
accuracy85
hype80
age-fit88
human-eye85
Penny’s verdict82
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