«Winkie er en teddybjørn, og Winkie er levende. Winkie snakker, Winkie føler, Winkie bæsjer. Hvis du som leser er beredt til å kjøpe de forutsetningene - ta dem til hjertet - så les videre. (Hvis ikke, kan vi kanskje interessere deg i en Philip Roth-roman, eller kanskje et leksikon?) ... Winkie er ikke perfekt, Winkie er ikke for alle. Men Winkie er årets mest ambisiøse bok så langt.»
- Entertainment Weekly
«Wildly, brilliantly comic...The emotional and moral torments of a teddy bear drive this surprisingly effective allegory of our terror-stricken times...Chase makes this out-of-left-field story work brilliantly; a funny, sweet yet seriously topical novel...[Winkie] is an argument for openness and inner strength on every imaginable front...Not to be missed.»
- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
«This book is way too odd to be sentimental, and its political sensibility shuttles easily between the cartoonish and the shrewd...The sections devoted to Winkie's trial are a minor masterpiece of ridiculousness, in which the prosecution's move to end the trial after it has presented its side sounds uncomfortably close to what we now read in the newspapers...Chase puts himself in the same league as David Sedaris with this unclassifiable debut.»
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
«Humoristisk, intelligent og vemodig samtidskritikk, skrevet i et usedvanlig følsomt språk.»
- VG