Written in short, choppy, ungrammatical schoolboy vernacular by a boy who describes himself as "too old for camp and too young for anything good," [The Blue Man] is a wild yarn about a murderer, bright blue in appearance, and the boy's chase to apprehend him. The vernacular is so exaggerated and details of the plot so fantastic that even with the final more or less plausible explanation, the book cannot be recommended for purchase.

Miriam S. Mathes, in her review of "The Blue Man," in School Library Journal, an appendix to Library Journal (reprinted from the November, 1961 issue of School Library Journal, published by R. R. Bowker Co./A Xerox Corporation: copyright © 1961). Vol. 8, No. 3, November, 1961, p. 54.