I read this book when I was five years old (I am forty today :) Perhaps it's the first book (story) I ever read. I still remember myself sitting in our corridor sounding the letters and the words then making a full sentence and Voila! like in an Eureka moment, I yelled: Mom, I can read! I read this book! I understood the story!. Now I am looking for this book and this series to read to my own children!!! I cannot recommend enough!