This book has very few words but what it does not say on the page it makes up for in its drawings. The pictures in the book are just outstanding. What is real is drawn in black and what is imagined by the character is drawn in blue. The drawings are a simple sketch but it fits with the book and the whole stick idea. The author Antoinette Portis uses earth tones on the pages to fit the whole wood, stick idea too and it really does work with the blues she puts in the book. I like the simplicity and complexity of this book. ( I read it five times) The best thing about the book is it really inspires imagination. I think in school today we cut children off from being dreamers to make a more efficient system and this book gets back to the idea of play before critical thinking... and of course I like that idea.