My son hated this book and would do nothing with it
931470
This isn't a book for beginners, some training is needed to use this book. My son hated this book and would do nothing with it, went to a local music store and was much happier with our purchases there.
1688598
My son hated this book so much .Jeffrey Brown's books are way better don't read this iBook ! Do not read reader
3721971
Got this for my 3 1/2 year old son who loves to read books like crazy. This one I did not like at all reading to him. Too much fluff in it....so many different kinds of trains, boats, helicopters, cars and airplanes that don't even exist ! I thought I was insulting his intelligence.  He did not care for it either. Never asked me again for it.
3878260
Our son hates it. He is 5mo old and will do everything in his power to get it off or avoid it.
10193
I would NEVER, EVER encourage my kids read this unless I wanted them to turn out misogynistic and racist who judge others with stereotypes that underestimate the potential and goodness of others.
3177026
I got this as a gift for my 2 year old son and since it's past the 30 day Amazon return policy it's going straight into the trash- I wouldn't even give it to Goodwill so another person makes the mistake of wasting their money on this book.  The writing is terrible, lengthy and far too advanced for a 2 year old's attention span.  Heck it didn't even hold mine.  The pictures aren't any better.  I read every night to my son and there are so many great children's books out there that are cheaper than this and so much better (any Sandra Boynton book, How do Dinosaurs?  series, Goodnight, Goodnight Construction site, the Pout Pout fish, etc)  - do not waste your valuable book space or your money on this book.
263024
My 5 year old son said "I wish no on even bought me this dumb toy!" The other comments are right, don't bother with this toy.
3401596
This book was a real disappointment, despite its clever title.  My 8 year old son picked this up with enthusiasm from the school book fair.  Though riding the coattails of STAR WARS popularity, it has more in common with the Captain Underwear series, demonizing the school principal and praising the kid that gets suspended from school.  It encourages rude behavior, and suggests anything is excusable to avoid boredom. The deliberate use of poor grammar and incorrect punctuation is ok for an adult book, but seriously confusing to kids who are still getting graded on those points.  The best aspect of the book was it's instructions on how to make the Cootie Catcher and that was all that caught the interest of my 8 year old.  Do we really need any more materials encouraging and modeling disrespectful behavior and attitudes?  I don't think so.
1041184
My 10 year old said this book made him cry it was so scarry and never wants to read anything remotely close to this book. The story begins with suicide and includes murder a d a whole host of other demonic activity...
780477
This is the only one of my son's books I have ever given away. Why? Because the book focuses the vast majority of its time on examples of undesirable behavior. Kids learn from and mimic what they see in books and other media. My son does not need any encouragement in the direction that this book presents. Pass on this book and get one of the many, many other gems out there!
2138483
I bought this book thinking it would really generate interest since it's about a boy named Parker, which is also my son's name.  However, this book is not in the least bit interesting for a two year old.  It's very wordy and the pictures inside are black and white (some cartoon, some photos) and of random objects, like a table or a stack of blocks.  My son listened to the first page, said "I don't like it" and has refused to so much as look at it since, and this is a kid who LOVES his books and begs me to read his three other potty training books to him.  With all the wonderful potty training books available for kids, this one falls so short I wish I could return it just because it is so terrible.
2885317
I found this stilted and totally uninspiring, even for my 3 year old....he was bored silly by the book. Maybe good for the under 2 crowd?
1628294
The contempt the author repeatedly expressed for both science and education made this book inappropriate for my young boys, ages 4 and 6.  The author used the cute characters to mask his contempt for many of the things I value in my life, and you perhaps value in yours.
I read this book at night to my 4 and 6 year olds. My four year old had chosen to read The Book of Pooh four times in a row.  I had used his interest in Pooh to help him learn other things, like math and drawing. I saw this book as a way to introduce some big philosophical concepts.
This may very well be an introduction to Tao, I don't know. If "The Way" means basically "To Criticize" then this is it. The author's point seems to be "Be Like Pooh." The problem is, he cannot do it himself.  If the author acted more like Pooh, his book would not be so objectionable to my children. Can you imagine Pooh criticizing at all?
When the author started talking about science as pointless and silly, my 6 year old (who was sitting in) asked what was wrong with science? He wants to be a scientist.  And when the author went on on a tirade about academics and school and even (ironically) books, I was shocked.  My boys are both in classes of some sort, and they don't know what to do with the author's low opinion of school.
There were many of these gems of knowledge.  One other one I remember is that exercise is worthless. Better he says to just lay on the grass. No kidding. My kids are very active (as is Pooh) and I hope they are active their whole lives.  The advice in this book is questionable at best, and totally inappropriate for children.  If you are an adult, have failed at school, and sit on a couch all day, then this book will provide you with a justification.

The author is a Talk Radio DJ, in the disguise as a mystic, putting on a puppet show starring Pooh.  He hijacks a childhood hero to vent his frustration at a failed college career. Underneath his "be simple, like Pooh" message is a great deal of anger and frustration that bubble to the surface in ill-chosen exaggerations about "narrow minded science" and "irrelevant academia" and joggers.  Did he not get tenure at Cal Tech, or something?  While he derides science as pointless study, one wonders if he drives a car, takes medicine, prints his books on printing presses, travels by some other means than his feet, in short... does he benefit from science?  If so, the word "hypocrite" springs to mind.
We never finished the book.  My four year old, who is FAR more Pooh-like than the author, simply knew that something wasn't right, and would actually pick another book and read it silently while I read this book aloud.  He had never done that before, or since, and it was his Pooh way of telling me that this guy wasn't appropriate.  So when my six year old asked, "How can he be against books - when he wrote one?"  we stopped.  The boy had a point.  Any author of a book who derides authors and readers of books for being too academic is clearly a fool.
The author does not have the inner peace and sense of fun and play that Pooh possesses.  Instead, he parades these cute characters about and (from time to time) sneers hate-filled generalizations about things he chooses not to respect.  I hear his second book is the same, but worse.  If that is "The Way" then count me out.
1188667
I'm torn.  I hate this book about as much as it is possible to hate something that is not showing up at your door to date your daughter.  My son thinks its hilarious.

I find the story to be forced and awkward.  The grammar to be non-existent.  The editing was probably done by a family pet.  I'm not certain, but I'm  pretty sure the actual book was printed in someone's Grandma's basement on her old 1997, greyscale printer and then stapled together by a toddler.
I'm actually feeling kind of bad about myself for such a harsh review, because I suspect this book is actually a first effort at publishing by a 4 year old who was raised by illiterate wolves.  Normally I'd admire that sort of grit, but UGGHHH this book is awful.

My son thinks the book is great though.  Mostly, I suspect, because the word 'fart' is clearly printed on the cover.  Its a guaranteed crowd pleaser when dealing with 9 year old boys.

Although I fear being called to trial in the Hague for encouraging any more books like this, as long as you don't have to actually read it along with your kid and said kid is still young enough to be pleased with no more than owning something with the word 'fart' on the cover, go ahead and get this book.

This terrible, terrible, godawful, low quality, miserable excuse of a book.
183096
I'm keen on self-hypnosis, autogenic training and other techniques, and found this book totally useless.
It teaches nothing, it's just a bunch of phrases of no effect, that according to the author
should hypnotize yourself  'with eyes open' simply repeating them over and over again!
I tried to sell this book at a second hand book shop, and even there they refused it.
In the end I was so annoyed that I got rid of it, yes, directly to the trash can.
Save your money, buy some other book.
77154
My son bought this book and waited till Nov. 1 to get it. After that he read it and I found it in the trash. He said it was trash, trash, and trash. It isn't funny and he says now he will get Jeff Kinney books from the library
3728364
This was given to our son for his 1st birthday.  If I actually let him near the book he would destroy it in seconds as the paper that the pop-ups are made of is quite flimsy.  Totally inappropriate for young children.  Whenever kids know how to be very gentle - then they'd be OK with this book, though I still would not recommend it.  I only tried to open a few pages and often the way one letter is supposed to morph into another either did not glide well or was hard to even figure out which letters they were supposed to be.