A nice little dream journey by j.otto Seibold and V.L. Walsh for the very young book-looker. Chongo Chingi is a penguin who dreams of flying, all the way to outer space, then is woken up by the alarm clock. Very few words here, much fewer than most of their books. Also simpler drawings on most pages with a few spreads of the famously inventive j.otto detail. Might not appeal as much to older readers as most j.otto books but still recommended.

I love Seibold. My wife loves him. My little daughter will (she's too young). The thing with Mr. J. Otto Seibold is not that his books are beautiful. They're smart too. In my opinion, there's no other name in children's picture books. Not even Maira Kalman. Seibold is a true artist, using Adobe Illustrator. I only wish he publishes more. For instance, where's the book "Bubblesoup"?
Aha! You can get it online at [his web site], it's just incredible. This one, with music, sound, and action, my little daughter already loves.

After having had success buying other Seybold/Walsh books for some of my friend's children, I decided to take a chance and get one as a birthday present for my 41-year old boyfriend.

As it turns out, it was the PERFECT gift! It's a big hit around our place -- he just can't get enough of it! At first I thought it would be a little mature for him, seeing as how he's a freelance graphic designer (you know how they are). But he took to it immediately -- he must have read it dozens of times by now. When he turns the pages he squeals and giggles as he points to all the little details, all the while just beaming with delight!

If you have an "artistic" boyfriend with a short attention span I can't give this book a high enough rating. Buy it now!

I love the illustration style - however, the story of this book is overly long and really not so interesting. My son won't stay by my side to listen to me read all the text in the book; I have to edit the book myself for him to be interested at all. I think the Seibolds' have produced better books (like the Olive stories, or the first Mr. Lunck book) and would reccommend those before FREE LUNCH.

My nephew loves Mr. Lunch, and so do I. We were very distressed to see our hero victimized by the machinations of a very, very bad elephant in this installment. However, we know that Lunch will always prevail -- with a little help from Ambrose, of course.

OK, so it may have great pictures and cute characters, but it is also a good story! Your kids will definitely love it...i did, and i am not even that young!