This book is a pretty standard book of opposites, the illustrations are just okay, not the adorable wonder that some reviewers would have you believe they are.The only thing that makes this book truly awful, in my opinion, is that the words are not laid out from left to right. For example, the word small, is written around the small bird, and the word tall is written up and down, both on the same page, with other words that go from left to right. This is confusing for small children who are learning to read and need the stability of being able to read always from left to right.