»With his charming, humorous, precise and – there is no better word – evocative pictures, Tomi Ungerer has achieved that which Heinrich Heine, more then one hundred years ago, did for the genre of poetry in the process of decline: with laconic irony, he breathes new life into the old, reinstating, as it were, its purity after seemingly endless abuse.«

»In his ›Great Songbook‹, Tomi Ungerer has illustrated the most beautiful German folk tunes with gentle irony and endearing reminiscence of his childhood.«

»How wonderful that there are still children's book authors with such a wealth of imagination.«