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suehc's review against another edition
4.0
I really liked this book. The beginning was a little slow- keep with it! The ending is worth the wait.
goodem9199's review against another edition
4.0
Different from what I usually like, but I really enjoyed this...fairy tale, mystery, etc.
typewriterjess's review against another edition
1.0
I like Sharon Creech. I really do. And I was so excited to read this book. Maybe I'm just too old to be reading this, but honestly, NOTHING happens in this book. Right when I thought something was going to happen, nothing did. It was sad. But I think it's more for kids, and I think they'd like it better than I did.
katie_chandler's review against another edition
3.0
Short chapters that read like a bedtime story. The telling is a little bare of details, but includes emotions and perspectives that encourage pondering.
bakersmom's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed this fairy tale. It was a quick read with a wonderful moral at the end.
annfran's review against another edition
2.0
Picked it up, read half in one sitting, put it down, and didn't pick it back up for nearly a month because it was not terribly compelling. The falling action could/should have been longer.
erinmp's review against another edition
2.0
I couldn't really get in to this one. The story is predictable, the characters weren't really that interesting (not even the poor orphan types). I usually like reading fairy tales, but this one wasn't interesting to me at all. There wasn't any kind of unique angle to it or really anything to learn from it.
mb24's review against another edition
4.0
I love Sharon Creech! She's written some of my most favorite kids' books ever; Granny Torrelli Makes Soup, Heartbeat, Love That Dog, Ruby Holler, The Wanderer, Walk Two Moons...Nice, sort of old-fashioned, lesson-teaching (but gently) stories that will mostly make you smile.
dogtrax's review against another edition
3.0
I was disappointed with this one. I guess I expected too much ... My son got bored with it, too, but we kept with it until the ned.
crystal_reading's review against another edition
3.0
Nice fairy tale type story, but there was no magic - literally and figuratively. There wasn't really a big problem and when the mystery was solved, I was left wondering why there had been a "problem" at all. I prefer Creech's realistic fiction, but this was okay.