I've had this book on my shelf for years. It was touted as a classic back when my boys were young (thus the purchase for the home bookshelf) but the boys, nor I, ever got around to reading it. Hubs is a huge fan of Make Way for Ducklings though ...

This ... reading it now, as an adult and so far from the time in which it was written, just didn't really do it for me. It was "a story" but six smaller stories. As I finished (I went with the audiobook) ... I had a hard time even remembering what any of them had been about. One was about donuts, and there was a skunk in another.

I always get the Kindle copy too, so I skimmed over it, and could then catch some of the illustrations too.  It just felt like a children's book, more like a picture book, and so dated. A very "Mayberry" feel for everything. Silly, over the top, slapstick comedy.  Maybe I wasn't in the mood.

I wonder what I would have thought of it if I'd read it as a child (as it was around back then too).