I thought this book was terrible - very disappointing. You say it's difficult to tell a story through the eyes of children - maybe that's why I could never figure out which generation they were talking about. The endless description of everything at the beginning of the book made me keep looking for the story and, once I found it, was disappointed in what I found. The only reason I read this book to the end was that my bookclub was studying Charming Billy for the next meeting and I wanted to read another of her books first. I hope Charming Billy is better than this one.