meh

Basically just the first day of dog ownership, and you know those kids are going to start slacking off and avoiding their dog-related chores the same way they avoid all their other chores.

This is another book where nothing really gets resolved on a permanent basis. That's the kind of thing that will build into a cycle.

The best part: “'What is booty, Papa?' Asked Sister.”

I was really expecting it to be about Mama and Papa bear realizing that sometimes pushing everybody to do too many things on a long car trip is a bad idea, but no.

Nobody talks like that. When you put it into rhyme like that, it doesn't sound natural.

This is like answering the question of “Who's Grandpa Smith?” by saying, “I'm really glad we have nice silverware.”

An odd way of thinking about things, and also really long and boring, especially for such a brief story.

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.

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.