(1) 4-6 Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. Spare prose outlines John Harrison's forty-year quest to determine longitude on a moving ship. Although the emphasis is on Harrison's doggedness, Borden presents the scientific problem deftly. Blegvad decorates the pages with both general scenes of the times (early eighteenth century) and specific incidents from the narrative. An afterword tells the fates of the principal players.

Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2004

(4) K-3 I Can Read Book series. Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. Forty poems in this easy reader cover familiar, albeit sentimental, childhood experiences. Some are season specific, while others address less cyclic childhood reflections. Frequent nonstandard punctuation creates obstacles for beginning readers, but Zolotow's brief poems use familiar vocabulary, and Blegvad's illustrations provide visual clues.

Reviewer: Betty Carter

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. Now in its fortieth anniversary edition, this tongue-in-cheek cookbook brings a certain savoir-faire to the sawdust-and-grass-clippings school of cuisine. "Place 6 medium-size rocks in an oven and roast until hard on the outside but still rare inside . . . . Roast Rocks tend to be difficult to slice, so serve each doll a whole rock. Serves 6." Blegvad's delicate black-and-white etchings add just the right ornamentation.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam | Horn Book Magazine Issue: June, 1961

(3) PS Harper Growing Tree series. Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. The young narrator invites readers to come inside a classroom. Detailed pen-and-ink illustrations, set against a white background, picture young children comfortably engaged in preschool activities. Simple word repetition in the rhymed text provides a quiet introduction to the notion of school and its attendant possibilities.

Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. Now available again in hardcover: the two treasured, highly original fantasies about the Minnipins. Rousing adventures though they may be, they also offer insights into the value of individualism and the nature of heroism.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1959

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. The classic tale is reissued here with Eric Blegvad's original interior illustrations and new cover art by Marla Frazee.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: December, 1957

(2) PS Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. Characterized by infectious rhyme schemes and verse forms varying from couplets to limericks, these twenty-nine poems (including nine new offerings) are attuned to the playful language of preschoolers and roll trippingly off the tongue. Illustrated with elegantly delicate humor, the book contains something for every taste: nonsense and good sense, wonderful imagery, compelling rhythms, evocative descriptions.

Reviewer: Mary M. Burns | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2000

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. This second volume of riddle poems by the team that produced With One White Wing is just as entertaining as the first. The riddles on each page are accompanied by small, anecdotal watercolors that hold clues to the answer, some of them purposely misleading. Several are written in rhyme, but rhyming or not, they all benefit from reading aloud and they all tweak the imagination.

Reviewer: Nancy Vasilakis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 1999

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. Blegvad re-illustrates this nonsense poem (previously published in a collection of Bodecker's verse) in the style of the late author-illustrator, his beloved friend. A progressively disheveled Mary engages in frenzied preparations for winter, all at the imperious behest of her rotund husband. She finally snaps, and he ends up wearing his tea. Blegvad imbues the illustrations with a warmth and humor that lighten Mary's weary toiling.

Reviewer: Susan Halperin | Horn Book Magazine Issue: April, 1977