Sorry, I'm not an 8 yo boy - and I liked The Picture of Dorian Gray, which this bastardized. So, I just couldn't appreciate this. I definitely could not have gotten through reading it to my sons. ( )

This book by Daniel Pinkwater was a great read. I think that it would be a very helpful book to show kids how bad conduct and mean actions can make you ugly on the inside.Two kids, Morty and Ray, are watching a movie about a very handsome man who has a portrait of himself made, but this man has a very ugly personality, so the portrait of himself starts turning really ugly to demonstrate what his personality and bad actions make him look. Morty and Ray decide to do the same thing to see if what was done in the movie can actual happen, and to their surprise, their experiment works. ( )

great book right up until the end...didn't like the ending ( )

Grades 3-6. Good story to read to students so that they compare what picture seems more pleasant of morty and ray and then apply that to their own actions. ( )