(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Raymond Briggs. The book begins with a seal birthing awake into the sea and ends with a lamb dying into the chaotic abyss. In between there is wonder. Every page reveals a glimpse of life at once familiar and utterly strange. Briggs's soft black-and-white charcoal sketches are, mainly, doodles in the margins; the best ones amplify something implicit in the poems.

Reviewer: Lissa Paul | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2007

(1) PS Illustrated by Raymond Briggs. Bert is back, with six more chapters detailing his hapless but oddly satisfying adventures. Ahlberg metaphorically grabs us by the lapels and hauls us into the book: in the funniest and most subversive example, he orders us to give Bert a haircut that quickly turns into a disaster ("Careful...not too much. Oh no!"). Briggs's illustrations are sublime, with Bert evoked in all his cherry-nosed, red-haired affability.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2002

(1) PS Illustrated by Raymond Briggs. Meet Bert, a classic noodlehead hero, hapless and lovable. Bert's adventures, told and shown with economy and verve, and chock full of slapstick humor, will score a direct hit on five-year-old funnybones. Readers will feel hurtled through the book by the energy of Brigg's vivid, mostly colored-pencil illustrations and Ahlberg's no-nonsense text.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2001