»When we look at Tomi Ungerer's children's book ›Papa Snap‹, the affliction from which modern picture books suffer becomes immediately clear: their artificial childishness, their pedantry. Ungerer's ›No Such Stories‹ are so dazzling precisely because his humorous and macabre creations have no other intention than actually to be seen as humorous and macabre. At any rate, Ungerer is a seismograph. That which he cloaks in the guise of his animal characters is actually taking place all around us. A more intelligent provocation of the zeitgeist – so terse, so precise – would be hard to imagine. Our world's propensity to catastrophe is maliciously juxtaposed to the swaddled protective shield of the idyll, until the end product is unmasked: the catastrophic idyll, which can be gleaned on every one of ›Papa Snap's‹ unnerving pages. And yet, it remains a book for children.«

»The most imaginative and off-beat of Tomi Ungerer's picture books.«