Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Today Is My Birthday!
Deborah Lau · 2022
66/100
👎 Skip It
A cheerful, rhyming birthday picture book that works best as a mood piece and a language-learning tool for toddlers and preschoolers. The bilingual edition is a genuine plus for multicultural families, but the narrative arc is paper-thin — this is closer to a celebratory greeting card than a story. Delightful for its niche, but not a standout on its own merits.
✦ 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.
📚 Buy the book ↗📱 Read on Kindle ↗🎧 Listen on Audible ↗ affiliate links · support the site, never the verdict
As an Amazon Associate and Audible affiliate, Penny earns from qualifying purchases. This never affects the verdict — see our affiliate disclosure.
Show the math
Verdict receipt0–100
safety98
substance48
craft65
originality55
accuracy70
hype55
age-fit85
human-eye60
Penny’s verdict66
Cross-pollinate