M. Sasek
By comparison [with This is Edinburgh, the text of This is Munich] is plodding, unsure whether to be informative or gay. There is some doubt, too, about who will read these books -- not the earnest ten-year-old who wants to know. The younger child might be puzzled by the guide-book aspect and by the touches of sophistication; the father and son in lederhosen, for example, who stand unflinching in a hothouse of tropical plants, or the buxom girl in Bavarian costume who turns up in the Munich artists' quarter with the caption, 'this is an art student.'
Text from Karl Miller, M. Sasek in New Statesman, Vol. LXI, No. 1573, May 5, 1961, p. 724.
