As a Children's book, I found this one to be very disappointing. We all know the story of the Emperor's new Clothes. Yet this one does not do a good job of telling the story. First off, the Target Audience for this book is in question.

It has the large well spaced print for a beginning reader to point to and sound out the words. But the words themselves are in question. How many 3, 4 or 5 year olds do you know that have words such as exquisiteness or Clothiers in their vocabulary? I can see my 3,4 or 5 year old asking me questions like, "What's a swindler?" What's a loom?" "What does magnificence mean?" The words are just too above their pay grade methinks.

Also, this book has no issue with throwing the word, "stupid" out like it's nothing. In fact, in many instances it refers to people not wanting to look "stupid". I just don't think it's appropriate to use that language on such an impressionable mind.

Finally, the book misses telling the moral of the story, which is to always tell and acknowledge the truth, no matter how embarrassing it may be. At the end, the child's bravery of telling the truth regardless of the awkwardness is totally missed on the reader because it's only about 3 sentences long.

I, for one, did not like the telling of this particular tale the way it was told. ( )