Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
When My Brother Gets Home
Tom Lichtenheld · 2020
87/100
👍 Worth It
The gap between what a little sister imagines and what the illustrations quietly show — Mount Kilimanjaro is actually a playground, the rainforest is a backyard — is a joke that works every single time and lands differently with children than with the adults reading alongside them. Four starred trade reviews are well earned. Tom Lichtenheld writing and illustrating his own warm, funny book about sibling love is a winning combination.
✦ 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
safety99
substance80
craft92
originality85
accuracy88
hype82
age-fit92
human-eye90
Penny’s verdict87
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