Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Wow! Look What Animals Can Do!
Jacqueline McCann · 2018
71/100
👍 Worth It
Rectangular goat pupils, rhinoceros beetles carrying 850 times their weight, gorillas catching human colds — this is the kind of fact book that gets left open on the kitchen table and read in bits all week. McCann's Royal Society credentials and Kingfisher's production quality give it a leg up over generic animal fact books, even if there is no narrative spine to pull you through cover to cover. A solid gift for any young curious-about-everything kid.
✦ 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
safety95
substance70
craft70
originality68
accuracy78
hype74
age-fit82
human-eye70
Penny’s verdict71
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