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

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

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.

So it's a really long, meandering story that doesn't go anywhere.

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.

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.