One of those books that are cool to adults but not so much for kids. For picture-book-aged kids, the connections between pages are hard to follow. So it will take quite a bit of extra storytelling on the adult's part. Which is fine, I think it's important to have those types of discussions about poetry and abstract or implied connections with kids, but it's not exactly bedtime material. I saw some other reviews from teachers using this to teach haiku in the classroom--great idea! This book is great for explaining that poetry uses a lot of "holes" and our imagination gets to fill those holes in.