I thought this book was very different. The concept of it was new, and I liked how it was kind of realistic because as a little girl I could see someone thinking this. This story is about a girl named Ruthie who has an Aunt Essie who came to live with her family. Ever since Aunt Essie arrived she acted like she was a Queen. Ruthie thought this because the first day Aunt Essie unpacked a picture of a man with a mustache and a sash across his chest, which she thought was a King. And Aunt Essie had long earrings, and drank tea with her pinky up, and ordered her Dad around, and spoke French, and had a little gold crown on her dress, and asked for help bathing herself, and many more things. One day Ruthie drew a "family tree" of all of the Kings and Queens she was related to and showed her neighbor, who laughed and told her to prove it, or she gets to keep Ruthie's dog. At the end of the story, Aunt Essie comes out for her date in fur and a gold crown, so Ruthie's friend finally believed her. This book made me laugh, because I never found out if Aunt Essie was really a Queen or not! It could have been just a bunch of coincidences, or she really could have been. Nevertheless, I found the book to be realistic because I could see a child picturing this about someone they're related to and then boasting about it to their friends. It's something I probably would have done! It was a nice story, and I really liked the flow of it, as well as the illustrations because there was a new one on every page. The story was broken up into short sentences on each page so it's an easy read for children. Also, the facial expressions of the characters in the book really capture what's going on so I liked that as well. It was original. ( )