I'll admit, it took me a while to get into this one. It was the characters' names that did it. I was bothered that Firefly was a firefly but the other ones didn't have names? Or are they all named Firefly?Was her Elder capitalized because they had a relationship? It continued with the crickets and the vole. Once I got past that name confusion, I settled into a lovely story about dreams, individuality, adventure, and coming to terms with bad things that happen to you. The illustrations are definitely worth looking at.