In a review of ‘books that can’t wait for bedtime’, Kathryn Ross in The Scotsman said of   Andy Stanton‘s Mr Gum and the Goblins,

‘With its idiosyncratically rambling storyline fuelled by non-sequiturs…spiky illustrations add to the mayhem…but the book’s genius, of course, is that everything really is under control. There’s nothing else quite like it. Let the giggles begin.’