In this debut for both Scott and Slonim, an unlikely catalyst rejuvenates a pessimistic old loner of a farmer. The thickly textured oil paintings, folksy in feeling and essentially realistic in their renderings, reward readers with quietly comic flourishes.
- Publishers Weekly

The illustrations in this book are priceless! When I first read it to my children, I could barely turn a page without their comments and chuckles about an expression on a character or some other subtle detail they noticed.
- Reader review from Amazon.com