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Takes a long time to get to its point. The point is weird. It's not a bad message; it's just a weird message.

Two separate people have loved each other from a distance and never actually had a conversation, but they're in love. Hopefully it works out at the end. It doesn't really say.

It's just a bunch of verses from the Bible, with some kind of maudlin, Precious Moments-style illustrations.

It takes a long time to tell this story, and there's not much to it.

It's not bad because the message is bad, but because it fails at getting that message across and what it does get across is just upsetting.

It kind of seems like trying to capitalize on the popularity of “The Stinky Cheese Man,” but it really doesn't live up to that.

Given Steve Martin's ability to write, most of them are actually really good rhymes and have good meter, which is hard to find in standard children's books. I was amused.

I wanted to hate this book, I really did. But I can't fault it for being well-written poetry with good rhymes, or for having great illustrations.

I don't think kids would think of “trimming” as putting ribbons and stuff on something, like you trim a dress, I guess? Maybe it's just dated.

Everybody's really lower class. Maybe that's good, because I guess there really isn't that much mixing of lower and upper class, so it's more realistic that way?