> I'm sorry. I still don't get it. IMHO, it's a bedtime story for very young children. It's got a calming pace, a rhythm that you can probably appreciate even

> I'm sorry. I still don't get it. IMHO, it's a bedtime story for very young children. It's got a calming pace, a rhythm that you can probably appreciate even if you can't understand words yet, and lots of concrete nouns. > And despite the overwhelming pressure society places on me reading it to my toddler, neither of us have any meaningful connection to the book. I have a little one, and he has a meaningful connection to it, because he's at the stage where everyday things are super interesting and new. You give him some more "interesting" book, and he doesn't care about the "interesting" parts, and is more into the cups, the clocks, or the balls.