I really wanted to like this one more than I actually did. The illustrations are fabulous! They’re warm and friendly and inviting. But it’s one of those poetical sort of books that depends on a series of short rhyming phrases to tell its story, but I didn’t think the words really did their job as well as they should have. Some of the vocabulary is likely to be unfamiliar to young children, and I don’t object to exposing kids to rich vocabulary, but sometimes the words chosen seem to be better at meeting the needs of rhythm and rhyme than actually conveying meaning. It maybe almost would work better as a wordless book.