Orla Kelly

While the concept and characters of this book have much potential, the execution of the text does not live up to this promise. With a better editor this work could be easily improved and live up to this potential.

My son is only 5, so this was a little bit advanced for him. I expect we'll enjoy it more in years to come - the stories seem to be engaging.

This book was lovely and my children enjoyed it very much. I love that I can read a little at a time from this book. I will check out more from this author.

I was drawn to this book because I wanted to laugh at the unending challenges of parenting and I wanted a glimpse into family life in rural Ireland. In the end, both desires were fulfilled. There were some very funny stories. However, the author spends too much time on developing the picture of the family and lost my attention. I only got to the funny stories because I was committed to reading the whole book before reviewing it. Probably better suited to be a novella or essay rather than a book.