A cute introduction to Taoism that uses layman's terms in an easily-understandable way. However, I have some problems with it. The author is clearly bogged down by some antiquated ideas (even for the 80s) that made me question his knowledge and experience in most things outside Taoism and east Asian historic culture. For once, he insists on there being an "independent study" validating the 200+ year lifespan of Li Chung Yun"; this is obviously false and has been debunked as a myth for a long time. He claims Thomas Edison was a prodigy, when in reality he stole inventions and ideas from others. Hoff makes an offhand comment about nuclear power that suggests his opposition is uneducated. This is part of his lecture on how science is useless in the grand scheme of things. I do not agree. Abstract thinking can most definitely take someone out of the moment and cause stress, create issues, and wear people down in the quest for something that might not exist. But science as a whole is beneficial, it has remedied situations that arguably were not created by humans in the first place. 

If Hoff left his personal views of out the text, it would receive a higher rating. That being said, I do appreciate its simplicity in meeting its claim: to explain Taoism through an adorable little bear.