 A reviewer for "Publishers Weekly" compared Fulvimari's illustrations to the images in "Vogue" while saying the story was preaching in nature.David Sexton from the "London Evening Standard" criticized Madonna's decision to write the story, including making the character of Binah a beautiful looking girl, since he believed that in reality "the children who suffer wounding rejection from their peers are not the beautiful, the clever and the sporty, but the ugly, the dull and the awkward".The images were described as "sub-Warholian" and "distinctly perverse", with Sexton panning the characters for looking anorexic.