My wife had this book lying around the house and I had never
read it. But I recall it being a children’s book that a lot of people liked and
a movie I may have watched so I decided to read it.
Overall it is a decent short story. The one thing that kept
coming to mind while reading it though is a phrase one of my high school
English teachers frequently used: “show it, don’t tell it”. This story felt
very told. As in you are told how everything looks, what the characters are
doing, and so on. Basically, the setting and just about everything described in
the book is rather spartan. There is enough to be a story but not a whole lot
more.
I am not sure that I will pursue reading the sequel.
