"Memorable again, like Old Yeller." - Horn Book
"Gipson, again, has given us a purely wonderful hunk of Americana, and one of those rare books to be enjoyed on many latitudes of brow elevation." - Chicago Sunday Tribune
"The story itself isn't in any sense a children's book, though most teen-age readers will enjoy every exciting chapter. What Mr. Gipson has written is the story of a grim situation, a desperate chase, filled with brutality and heroism, yet he has written it with a sense of young wonder and even, at times, with humor." - New York Times Book Review