This is an easy to read comic book with beautiful illustrations, so it does have a lot going for it, but a couple of things really annoyed me: First of all I couldn't for my life keep track of the characters (there are six different characters, but the badgers between them all look the same and so do the foxes, unless you see them side by side), especially if you haven't read the first book in this series, [b:The Meeting|7637957|The Meeting (Mr. Badger and Mrs. Fox #1)|Brigitte Luciani|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348515599s/7637957.jpg|10160398], and thus been formally introduced to them. This made the dialogue very confusing to me. Also, I didn't realize until halfway through the book that this is really a story about a blended family, so I would highly recommend to read these books in the correct order. In fact I was having a hard time figuring out what the plot was. This said, my son who read it all by himself (and adding a lot of theatrics to the back and forth dialogue) seemed to enjoy the book quite a bit.
My other reservation with this book is the same that I also had with the easy reader comic series about [b:Benny and Penny|6979398|Benny and Penny in the Toy Breaker|Geoffrey Hayes|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1335412708s/6979398.jpg|7220966]. The whiny tone, the bickering and the non exemplary language of the younger characters is - if not harmful - at least more than a little annoying. I could not help but ponder more than once if this could not have been written differently. Now, I can't obviously tell if this was the tone of the original version in french, or whether something was lost in translation (which would be a shame, because these are otherwise such charming books). We will try to seek out the previous volumes in the series, to catch up on the whole "blended family" thread ... ( )