Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
This Is Family
David Walton · 2016
57/100
👎 Skip It
This picture book addresses a real need — giving adoptive families an early, age-appropriate tool for talking about belonging and transition — and the 24-page scope is at least workable for the 6-to-8 range. Reader responses lean positive. But zero critical review coverage and a modest small-press profile make it genuinely hard to assess whether the execution matches the intention.
✦ 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
Faith & family safety72
Substance / usefulness62
Craft & writing60
Originality48
Evidence & accuracy60
Hype vs delivers54
Age-fit54
👁 Human-eye gut-check56
Penny’s verdict57
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