A great, quick story with believable characters and a surprise (to me, anyway) ending. I never thought about yellow being such an obnoxious color before. It's interesting to experience the world as seen by a child who's mind is wired differently from most. The combination of the pragmatism of the hero and his unwitting solution to his family's problems make this story unusually simple on the outside and complex on the inside. It was a pleasurable reading experience, not unlike "A Girl Named Zippy". Perhaps unfairly I compare The Curious Incident to "To Kill a Mockingbird". With such a lofty benchmark, 4 stars is pretty high praise.