I absolutely judged this book by its cover because the cover is beautiful. The story is very sweet and emotional, but the characters don't have a lot of development, and I felt that the plot didn't really start until the last fourth of the book. I wasn't super engaged, sadly, but this is a story for small children. Personally, I believe that our children deserve excellent stories, fleshed out worlds, and developed characters, but this story had a good message and some solid basics. (Also this one had a huge misprint where it skipped pages 292 to 325 and replaced them with a repeat of 265 to 292)