Before I met my wife, I was in Boston in 1999, and Neil Gaiman read the audience, a room full of adults, this story. Now that I am a parent, my daughters love the story because it is *SO* much fun to read. It has a brave little girl (Which is rare, no princesses) silly sounds and a plot so strange, that your child would never be scared of the wolves coming out of the walls. The art is fabulous, as it breaks pre-held conceptions of children's book art and graphic design.