We borrowed this book from the library and tried to read it. It's lenghty sentenses in a old english/shakespear type talk. Maybe someone could clarify for the type of writing. I could bearly read this to my DS9. On the inside cover it says for all ages. The illustrations are beautiful. On the sentences that I could interpret we ended up laughing. I would read this long sentence and then give my short version. I almost felt like we were disrespecting the book. Anybody have some insight to how one would even begin to understand this book. It just amazed me. I think usborne books has a shorter version of this that we may try.