What they said

Dolittle seems to extend his hand from the page and grasp that of his reader, and I can see him going down the centuries a kind of Pied Piper with thousands of children at his heels Hugh Walpole, novelist No one else has set out, quite as he did, to create a hero, and a notion of heroism, that is radical, pacifist and profoundly opposed to common ideas of conventional respectability Edward Blishen, biographer Whenever a book is a real success for children, it is a success and an enjoyment for grown-ups. If writers could only get away from this classifying of children as a separate species, we would get very much better books for the younger generation Hugh Lofting