Shortlisted
• The Canada Council Children's Literature Prize for Illustration, 1985

Quill & Quire
"The texture of the Plasticine three-dimensional images is so realistic that there is a constant temptation to pinch the pictures."

Vancouver Sun
"Brilliant colours, wonderful contours and textures and unique perspectives combine on page after glorious page"

Publisher's Weekly
"...a sweet story, which should encourage those readers who despair of ever growing up themselves. Reid's observations of country life are on target, from the barnyard full of animals to the pink-cheeked farmer who tends them."

The Reviewing Librarian
"This simple story of the first days in the life of a fine baby calf is a cheerful delight. The effects the artist has produced with simple modelling clay are truly extraordinary, and will surely inspire imitation, whether by tiny beginners at the kindergarten sand table or art students at college level."

Toronto Parent
"Colourful, imaginative and humorous, the textured surface of the plasticine-relief illustrations will capture the imagination of children of all ages and perhaps inspire them to try some plasticine art of their own."

Toronto Star
Barbara Reid's colour illustrations done in Plasticine relief make The New Baby Calf, a poem by Edith Newlin Chase alive enough to feel."

London Free Press
"Apart from the attractiveness of the book, what a stimulating introduction to a favourite media this is for the little reader."

Hornbook Magazine
"The milking scene provides a rear view of Buttercup in which Reid beautifully captures what painter Emily Carr has called the "squareness" of a cow. ...The farmer's cheekbones and knuckles and the blossoms on the trees are tiny balls of colour, delicately squished. One can feel how much fun it must have been to create these pictures."