Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Wild Apples
Henry David Thoreau · 2021
62/100
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This is a genuinely lovely Thoreau essay for adult readers who love nature writing and 19th-century American prose — lyrical, philosophically rich, worth reading. But it is not a children's book, the Cosimo Classics reprint adds no editorial scaffolding, and the cataloging here under Children's is almost certainly a metadata error.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety90
substance72
craft82
originality68
accuracy80
hype60
age-fit20
human-eye60
Penny’s verdict62
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