Eric Carle, despite being known as a classic children's author, has not been a hit with my kids. We finished this story and one of my 4-year-olds asked, "Was that not a good book, Mama? I didn't love it. Can we take it back?" We all love repetition in children's books, but in this and other Carle books, the repetition goes on too far, and becomes annoying. The only thing my littles seemed to enjoy in this one was comparing the size of the ladybug with the animals he wanted to fight.