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Penguin Young Readers

By Various Authors
Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4
Review:

We do not recommend all Penguin Young Readers as some contain mild inappropriate behavior, but we have reviewed and recommend the following:

Level 1: Bake, Mice, Bake!; Cat Days; Clara and Clem Take a Ride; Max Finds an Egg; Max Has a Fish; Tiny the Snow Dog; Tiny’s Bath; Turtle and Snake Go Camping; We Are Twins

Level 2: Apples and How They Grow; Butterflies; Frogs; Ham-Ham-Hamsters; Kate Skates; Kit and Kat; Lost and Found; Madeline and Her Dog; Madeline’s Tea Party; Miss Bindergarten and the Very Wet Day; Pal the Pony; Please, No more Nuts!; Princess Buttercup; Snail-Snaily-Snails; The Bravest Cat!; The Garden That We Grew; The Pizza That We Made; What a Hungry Puppy!; Who Ate My Book?; Who Stole the Cookies?

Level 3: Baby Elephant; Black Out! Animal that Live in the Dark; Cork & Fuzz; Do Dolphins Really Smile?; Honeybees; Knights; Pink Snow and Other Weird Weather; The Giant Jelly Bean Jar; Why Do Horses Neigh?; Swim, Mo, Swim!; Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth; Bones and the Dog Gone Mystery

Level 4: Are Unicorns Real?; Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln; L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland; Tiny Terrors! The World’s Scariest Small Creatures; You Can’t Smell a Flower with Your Ear!

For most Penguin Young Readers, the levels correspond with The Good and the Beautiful’s levels.

(Reviewed by an Official Good and Beautiful Reviewer)

Series Yes
Genre Fiction, Nonfiction
  • 4 Entertainment Value
  • 3 Moral Value
  • 3 Educational Value
  • 3.5 Literary Value
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