Last summer we had read volume 1 with my son (then aged 4 and 5 years) and had liked it! Especially pages smelly and smelling of course;) This Volume 3 is still original, but I would put a small problem: the story is more complex, less rhythmic and "moralizing" side was a little embarrassed. The formula is slowing a bit it seems ... We still have to test the volume 2.