There's a great deal of unsolicited kissing going on in this book...

This is a hard tale to introduce to children. It's very long (fifty pages can be a lot for a little guy, even if they don't have much text on them!), and there's just so much going on. But given the length and weight of the tale, Lesley Sims did a pretty alright job. It's perhaps a bit too dumbed down in places - there is a way to speak in a manner that children will understand AND be poetic - but there's no denying that it gets the story across. ( )