The New Yorker

The New Yorker is represented in the book’s closing matter by a strongly approving review that treats its verbal humor, playful logic, and illustrations as parts of one adventure. Its distinctive emphasis is that the nonsense is not merely amusing: it has an ingenuity and internal logic that make the story’s comic premise compelling.

Review and Assessment

The review calls the book a delight and praises both the ingenuity of its humor and the irresistible logic of its nonsense. This pairing captures the comic method it commends: absurd turns are presented with enough coherence to carry the reader through them as a story, rather than as disconnected jokes.

The Story and Its Illustrations

The New Yorker describes the book as a rescue journey involving an overworked Baby Dragon on a jungle island crowded with wild beasts. It credits the text and the decorative, amusing black-and-white pictures together with telling that story, making the illustrations part of the review’s account of how the adventure reaches its reader.

Place in the Book’s Reception

The endorsement appears in the closing material alongside the book’s Newbery Honor and American Library Association Notable Book designations and a separate notice from Saturday Review. Those neighboring items are distinct forms of recognition; The New Yorker’s contribution is its specific appraisal of the book’s humor, nonsense logic, and illustrated adventure.