CHILDREN'S
Released: March 10, 1972
"A mismatch in every respect."
It's evident from the start of this pointless intercultural hocus-pocus that Harry the lonely dragon is a real loser: in order to win a wife he must defeat a knight in battle, but Harry can't fight.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 15, 1972
"MPSLUGMRS Rockwell's pictures do their best to make up for the absence of music and dance to sustain the fantasy, but the story is less imaginative than just unlikely."
This begins as a realistic story about a little boy (black) going to work with his father (a prop man?) and watching Yvonne, a beautiful ballerina (white) rehearse.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 1974
"Despite occasionally conspicuous attempts to be poetic, an affecting balance of wishes and reality, well suited to reading aloud."
Soft black and brown sketches of Jimmy and his inner city world provide a quiet, suggestive accompaniment to Myers' pleasingly fluent prose-poem about the little boy's dreams of flying like a bird.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 1975
"Stuff can be a little long-winded in Holden Caulfield-like digressions, and his friends awfully earnest in their discussions of sex and drugs, but in general his colloquial first-person narrative projects a sense of enviable group rapport with an easy mix of nostalgia and humor."
Stuff, the youngest, moves to 116th Street when he is twelve and a half, and this is by way of a fond memoir of the kids he came to hang out with.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 1977
"No tea leaves needed to figure out the resolution, but kids will respond to the vitality, stoop wisdom, and scattered magic."
As in Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff (1975), Myers has rounded up a bunch of spunky youngsters, and their snappy dialogue and urban brio tend to cover up the plot improbabilities.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 25, 1978
"Sound base, authentic surface—like Tippy, a winner."
As both Branscum and Rabe come out with grit-and-hardship dramas of 1930s orphans, Myers gives us a contemporary Harlem kid whose problems seem more real and more serious even though he has a father and, thanks to welfare, knows he will eat.
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