Cloudland

There is probably a sweet spot when this book would be a good one to read to a child. Perhaps about age 3. My daughter was several years older when I got it, and I was thinking it might be good as an early reader, but it never caught her interest. I think I enjoyed it more than she did.

The style of the book is rather interesting. Actual photographs of sky and clouds are overlaid with simple illustrations of the characters and their activities. In the story Albert is out hiking high in the mountains with his parents and falls off a cliff when they are returning home. His parents think he is lost but Albert is rescued by children living in clouds who mutter a magical phrase to make Albert light enough to walk on clouds. He spends many show more days with the children in the clouds and meets the queen of the clouds and the man in the moon. But he longs to return to his home and in the end the queen arranges it. Albert awakens in his bed when the clouds are blown over his home town. show less