Well, I really wanted to really like this.  And actually ~I~ did.  My daughter was bored to tears.

 

The book is 192 pages long.  It took us three days to get through it.  I found it interesting to find out more about the author who gave us some great children's book ove the years.  This would be a good book for a slighlty older child wanting to learn more about life in the 1920's and 30's.

 

This book won the Caldecott Honor in 1988.  I take my stance that although this is a great book, in my eyes the Caldecott books should be directed at children who are reading picture books.  Around the ages of 3-6.  This book was too long for this age group and frankly I don't think even Bill Peet intended the average 3-6 year-old to be reading.  In my opinion, although it has pictures, and lots of them, it does not qualify as a picture book.  It is even shelved in the Juvenile Biography section of my local library.