Definitely a good message of female empowerment. I'm not sure it would resonate well with boys who read it because of that, but it's more of an answer to traditional fairy tales.

Wow, that's a terribly useful book. Papa Bear has a dog, for crying out loud, that he seems to be trying to get to sniff the trail. So they are literally following their noses at the beginning and that doesn't lead to the answer.

It seems kind of pretentious in a way, like it's supposed to be artistic and I don't really understand where it's going. There's no message. It's just baffling.

It's a story that gets more and more complex as it goes on, but then fizzles out at the end. The dual messages are rather in conflict.

There's no story. It's just a bunch of facts. The pictures are kind of cool, but there's nothing to follow.

There are a lot of different noises, and I think children would enjoy repeating the noises of the poems. The illustrations are cute. The poems are funny.

I wanted to like it, but it's kind of judgmental against people who don't take time to look at the world around them.

I don't think we owned this book as a child and probably checked it out from the library, but I remember spending hours with my mother and sister just trying to see what I could find in all the details, all the hidden little things that are tucked into every corner of the image.

It's pretty much what I expected. A little silly, a little sappy.

It's a simple story with a simple message, and the sparse text makes it beautiful.