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Title: May appeal to adults, but fails with the 4-5 year old set
Review: In reading the other reviews written about this book, I was struck by how all three of them seem to be written from the perspective of an adult reader. To that extent, I agree with the reviews: the book is quite poignant, and does a beautiful job appealing to an adult's sense of the passage of time and loss. Yet, I believe that it fails in appealing to its target audience of 4-8 year olds. In reading this book to my 4 1/2 year old daughter, she almost immediately tuned out. I believe that the prose is too dense and the ideas overly sophisticated for your average pre-school to kindergarten aged child.
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