Spinster Goose
Blackall’s watercolor-and-ink illustrations are fascinatingly delicate in line and color as they convey all the funny, delicious ghastliness of necks bending in woe, cheeks paling in nausea and this whole mob of unbiddable, hybrid Struwwelpeter/Gorey kids. —Kirkus Reviews
Blackall’s pallid vignettes balance chilly poise and mordant humor. In one spread, a line of truculent children/animal hybrids slouch beneath Spinster Goose’s gaze, one with a cigarette smoking behind her back. Though some may shrink from its clever ghastliness, kids with twisted senses of humor will feel right at home. —Publishers Weekly
Blackall backs up the rhymes with wry, devilish images that surround, infiltrate, and help spark this offbeat collection.—School Library Journal