Huh. Beautiful illustrations, but the story was a bit, well, I don't know, odd, maybe. The story felt incomplete, too. The ending just dropped, and I'm not quite sure what we were supposed to take away from this book. My niece liked the story, and both she and my nephew stuck with it, even though it was a little long. I guess my sister and I were less than impressed with this one, but the kids seemed to think there was something to this story.