Title: Quite poor as children's literature
Product review: I know that this book has tapped into the child-illness market, and if it has served a useful function there, that's great.But as a piece of children's literature, it's pretty dreadful. There's no real cadence to the verse, the flow of the story makes no sense, from ancient castle to modern life (our message to homeless people should not be for them to just laugh?) and it's really unclear why anything happens. Why has the king lost the ability to laugh? How is it that he gets it back?As a Mom who has read countless books to her three children and to nieces and nephews galore, I can only report that neither I nor the couple of kids I read this story to was engaged. I should say "tried to read it to," because they lost interest before we reached the end. My view of this book is that it's something everyone THINKS is supposed to be good, especially because of the sad story of the young man who wrote it.
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