This book is awful. I thought this book was scary and totally inappropriate for children. The father gets mad and threatens to join the navy and hopes to drown and then his body is taken over by the devil and he is turned into a lump of coal. The daughter goes and tells the mother, but the mother accuses her of making it up and doesn't listen to the child. Then the same thing happens to the mom,who is turned into a blue egg. The only thing that saves them is that the daughter cleans the devil's baby and the whole house. The messages being given out are terrible.