The story is one young children will enjoy. As in all of the book about the Ziz, Katherine Janus Kahn's bright watercolors bring the tale to life. For the most part, the pictures are wrapped around the text, often in large double-page illustrations. There are always little details for children to pick out—animals, flowers, birds, designs—that make opening the book exciting every time the story is read.

The first book Jacqueline Jules wrote about the Ziz was The Hardest Word, which brought the lessons of forgiveness and atonement stressed by the Jewish High Holidays. Subsequent books illustrated other moral lessons through the antics of this colorful bird. Ironically, the premise behind The Princess and the Ziz was a story that Jules found in several collections of Jewish fairy tales and folk tales. That story was her first introduction to a giant yellow bird who brought King Solomon's daughter the man she would marry. Jules named him the Ziz and a series was born.

As always, a visit from the Ziz is a welcome one!  The Princess and the Ziz will delight young children as a picture book shared with their parents or later as a book they could read on their own.