Granted, I am not the target audience for this. I am way past being the target audience, but you hear about these things sort of by osmosis, don't you? Best picture books for kiddies and all that. I finally got round to reading Where the Wild Things Are earlier this year and that was awesome, so I thought I'd read this as well, and what a boring piece of cutesy blandness it is. I cannot picture even child me liking this book - my tastes even then ran more to the Beatrix Potter kitten being rolled in dough to make dumplings for rats.

Suffice to say, I enjoyed even the dullness that is Madeline more than this.