The illustrations alone are enough to recommend this book.  They are beautiful and charming and fanciful.  The story is a bit heavy: an  allegory describing all the troubles that arise as Mother Nature keeps trying to make children of her own (by the names of Fear, Hate, Greed, Envy & Fickle), and then leaving them in the charge of the humans while she goes off to create the seasons.  Every time she returns, it’s to disastrous results, until she creates a set of twins, who managed to bring everyone else together in harmony (most of the time), whom she named Love.  Not exactly a light-hearted tale, but one that gives children a way to ponder some big ideas.