(2) PS Words by Linda Zuckerman. A selection of Freeman's illustrations (unpublished prior to the original edition's publication) is given surprising coherence and unity by the theme of the simple, ingenuous rhymed text. "What do you see when you look outside? / A pigeon / Some penguins / The world so wide." Freeman's spontaneity, gentle humor, and freshness of color are all on display.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: June, 1980

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Don Freeman. Peck's only picture book is reissued with a new introduction (which may interest adults; kids--the ostensible audience for this volume--won't give a fig). The archetypal story--a young boy visiting his grandmother is afraid that monsters lurk in the darkness of the room he's sleeping in--is enhanced by Freeman's atmospheric scratchboard illustrations, but the text is overlong.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta