First off, this is another Kiddie Lit book. And this time, I did not mind so much that I was reading a book meant for grade schoolers.
This book is basically a compilation of Chinese myths and legends into one long story. It was interesting. It was educational. It was inspiring. Basically, it moralistic story about how to achieve happiness but it was a good read. It made me laugh.
Criticism: I have nothing really to add about the book itself. I just want to complain about what it said on the cover about this book following the tradition of 'The Wizard of Oz'. I've read 'The Wizard of Oz'. It is nothing like this book. At all. This book is based on a culture's traditions. Oz was made up randomly by that one guy. The other problem I have is that the cover fulfilled one of my two pet peeves about book covers. It gave away part of the ending. Half the point of the book is that the dragon can't fly and what is he doing on the cover? Flying! I mean really!
(The other pet peeve is when the cover makes no sense with the book. Example; the version of Out of the Silent Planet that I read had a guy in a space suit even though Lewis never had his characters use them. And the planet the spaceship and man were on looked nothing like Malacandra could possibly have..
Random comment: I loooooooved the pictures in this book. They were really pretty :)
Rating: Good to very good.
Read again? Maybe. Probably.
You read? Sure.
Age level: Pre-teen but a bit long.
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