Publishers Weekly praised Barbara Dillion as "an expert at weaving tales children believe in willingly." When Bertine buries the eye (all that's left) of her beloved old teddy bear, she has no idea she'' end up with a whole treeful of fluffy new teddies!
Timon, a Greek youth who is a Roman artist's slave and apprentice, finds his plan to escape to freedom with a pirate complicated by the eruption of Vesuvius and his loyalty to those who have befriended him