This is not a recommendation for children, but rather for teachers and any others concerned with the care and nurturing of children. It is an easy, feel-good read, unsophisticated, amusing, wildly romantic, optimistic, sometimes rather silly, somewhat sentimental. But its core message about the intrinsic worth and potential of every single child, regardless of any other consideration whatsoever, is of fundamental importance to our world and to any concept of true education. This makes it so important a book, as well as a hugely enjoyable one.
Those who aspire to be great teachers should take it to heart. Those who already have, already are.