The narrative voice/Lonnie’s voice and the conversations with his parents, mainly his father, are stellar.

The author gets childhood mischievousness right with the siblings finding a loophole for saying “stupid.” Also, the story demonstrates how kids are more observant than we think when Lonnie questions his father.

Another artist could have helped take this book to another level though the illustrations here do work.

Another nitpick I get Lonnie being bombarded with questions from his classmates about his parents' recent divorce, but I can’t see him being ostracized for being the only kid in school with divorced parents. Kids come from all types of home lives especially single-parent homes.

Overall, I enjoyed the insightful car rides.