Excellent for a first visit to an art museum and as jumping-off point for young artists seeking creative style. Few names are as recognizable in picture books as Dr. Seuss, and this posthumous offering will have many eager readers.

A-mew-sing fare for readers who sometimes feel like fraidycats themselves

Tremendous . . . Such a blend of adventure, thoughtfulness, magic, intelligence and deep feeling is very special and rare

A magical story . . . Pony is pure delight

R J Palacio, author of a modern classic children's book of our era, has somehow crafted what feels like an entirely different breed of classic: page-turning and heart expanding, elegiac and adventurous . . . timeless and utterly necessary to our current moment

A brilliant adventure and a heartfelt story about love and loss. Young readers will be entranced . . . A book that feels like a classic after just a few pages