The Toronto Star
"There's not an excess word in Reid's text. The action licks along at a pace that can't help but hold attention and Reid's trademark Plasticine art seems to have reached a new pitch of vivacity and fun in the pictures. It's impossible to tire of poring over all the remarkable detail in this book"

The Vancouver Sun
"This kind of comic inversion, from the real to the funny and familiar, is the key to Reid's modern retelling. While the Grimm Brothers' version finishes with a finger-wagging lesson about goodness, Reid's comic characters bring the same message home with loads more fun."

The Hamilton Spectator
"In Golden Goose, she retells the old take in two different ways. Her prose is straight-ahead, and could have been adorned with the most traditional of illustrations; instead she portrays the puzzled father of the sad daughter as a stereotypical small town car dealer and the boy as the youngest son of a backwoods, Spam-eatin', trailer-trash, wood-chopin' family. Reid is extra silly and sly and there are things that amaze on every page..."

The Calgary Herald
Reid's Plasticine illustrations are a marvel, chock full of humorous details and cleverly fashioned. This traditional and fun-filled story is tuned into the sensibilities of a generation of independent and environmentally friendly children"

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Barbara Reid is able to represent her characters' personalities through her visual images as provokingly as any verbal descriptions. It is a book with an invitation to picked up and read. This is a true picture book!
Although this book can be enjoyed on its own merit as an entertaining story, it is also an excellent accompaniment to the original version. For those studying fractured fairy takes this book is a wonderful addition. Older students could use this type of text to inspire some wonderful pattern writing of other folk tales.
This book, as other Barbara Reid takes, can open an exploratory world of art to children. Not only can they enjoy the story, they can use plasticine to create their own characters, using the vivid illustrations as a model. It is a picture book that deserves to be in classrooms for many ages.