I think I need to stop selecting books by this publisher:  I seem to always find them a bit odd.  The illustrations in this one are beautiful, and perhaps the youngest readers will be content to look at the pictures and make up their own stories, but I doubt many of my students will enjoy the story.  I don’t know whether it’s because the story was originally written in another language, and something was lost in translation, or if it is a matter of cross-cultural disconnect in the accustomed manner of story-telling, but I found it long and rambling without much of a story arc to follow.