I don't like this Sophie character. She's rude and lacking in charm. Her matter of fact responses which are supposed to be funny, aren't. The jokes all fall flat. My little girl liked the story because it had horses in it, but even she got bored before the end, and then- it just finished, without any real semblance of an ending. We have 4 more of these stories. Hopefully I won't be called upon to read them.