"Using childlike phrasing, Heide (The Shrinking of Treehorn) makes a list of anxiety-provoking moments-in-progress. She suggests that everyday problems ('Finding out your best friend has a best friend that isn't you/ is scary') can be as startling as daydreams ('Thinking what if you'd been born a hippopotamus/ is scary'). Feiffer's hyperactive sketches seek an edge between silly and horrible—not unlike embarrassment—and the design shows off the visual and verbal pacing. The frantic boy, always tiptoeing and suffering from indecision, floats in negative space and never comes to rest. With perceptive examples and over-the-top images of physical comedy, Heide and Feiffer acknowledge, and perhaps demystify, some shared fears." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)