Puss in Boots (Pinkney book)

School Library Journal, in a review of Puss in Boots, wrote "The text clearly relates the plot with lyrical language and vivacious energy, and the color-pencil and watercolor artwork showcases the period's costumes, architecture, and landscapes."^[1]

The Horn Book Magazine wrote "Pinkney stays close to Perrault's written version of the story (according to the artist's note, Pinkney chose to set the tale in France in 1729, the date of the English publication of "Puss in Boots"), providing sumptuous watercolor, gouache, and colored-pencil illustrations that place realistic natural elements like animals and trees side by side with the ostentatious embellishments in the eighteenth-century clothing and furnishings of the human characters."^[2]

Puss in Boots has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly,^[3] Booklist,^[4] Kirkus Reviews,^[5] The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books,^[6] and Library Media Connection.^[7]