I've said it before, but these CHUD children's books never work because they can't use metaphor properly to simplify their ideas to a level young children can understand, since their ideas are already so simplistic. So all they can do is dress up their toxic ideas in vague fantasy/talking animal coat of paint, which is why they don't work as a children's book, because children aren't going to understand any of the references when Kash the wizard slays the evil Sleepy Joe dragon or whatever.