2,5/5. Can't say I really enjoy this one. Even if the story was kind of original and I like the weird crazy imaginative inventor old man, I just find the story a bit slow. It's the kind of book that my mind has trouble to fit in the targeted reader. Because the look and the storyline look very childish, almost picture book age, but at the same them the length and the amount of text make it closer to, well not middle-grade, but older then picture book... Anyway the pace is also very slow and I think that a lot of children would have trouble keeping up with it. The illustrations are beautiful, classic, but colorful and I really like the way the space organization from one page to another vary, it make it look more dynamic. Was expecting more!