Title: Skip this one
Review: This book was depressing. As I turned each page, watching the narrator-child covet all of the wonderful things he presumes his neighbor has, I assumed that in the end there would be a moral of sorts. Perhaps he would learn that the older boy did not indeed live as wonderfully as he thought. Nope. Instead, the ending makes the narrator-child look pathetic and sad. The recommended age for this book is 4-8, and I think that's a little too young to teach children that "life sucks and the closest you'll ever get to perfection is in your imagination, kid".We also own The Daddy Mountain by the same author, and that one is much better. It also has no moral to learn, but at least it doesn't suck the hope right out of you.
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