This was a bit of a disappointment--not enough to earn 2 stars, but I had higher hopes for it. On the plus side, it felt very New York. On the down side, I'm not quite sure who the market for this is for. It reads like a set of New Yorker-ish charming, gentle short stories--it didn't feel like a kid's book at all (even allowing for the fact that NYC kids are perhaps more sophisticated than rural children, say). So it was a collection of pleasant-enough stories that would bore children but didn't have enough emotional or intellectual heft to really engage an adult.

(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). ( )