The illustrations on each page are attractive, but the design of the corresponding verses facing them is anything but attractive or satisfactorily legible. Each one is a representation of hen-scratchy hand printing on a piece of lined paper torn from a note book. While this approach might perhaps be fine for an adult to read to a child, young readers would have problems deciphering the words. For instance, all the letter 't's are printed in upper case. The rhythm and rhyme are also forced and unnatural at times:

      We came to say hello to him
My mother did explain
"Because he has a kind of sickness
That will bother with his brain"

      The last line seemed very awkward and poor English to boot.

      Perhaps this criticism will be considered mean-spirited, but it seems odd that a colourful little book with a compassionate theme would be allowed to have these distracting flaws.

Recommended with reservations.