Delightfully surreal...save this book for the brightest and most adventurous young word-worms on your holiday shopping list...Singh's daring illustrations will appeal to older children eager to leave the world of candy-colored cuteness behind.
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New Yorker At last, the legend of the brave, if peculiar, companions who set out to bag a snark (arming themselves with forks and with hope) gets lavish treatment from [Mahendra] Singh....These may be the fittest illustrations ever created for Carroll's distinctively Victorian nonsense concoctions.
–Laura Miller, Salon
[C]hallenging and delightful.
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Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness It is not children who ought to read the words of Lewis Carroll.
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G.K. Chesterton Singh's black-and-white surrealistic treatment of Carroll's classic poem is perfect...takes the ideology of Carroll's nonsense to new visual levels. Far beyond a simplistic, literal depiction of the poem, each panel is thoughtfully created, filled with puzzles, jokes, and allusions.
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Library Journal
