The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books features a review of Naked Bunyip Dancing in its May 2008 issue:

“Using a by-now-familiar format of free-verse poetry that alternates among the voices of various students and a more collective class voice, Herrick manages to capture the sweet earnestness and unassuming wit of sixth-graders as they experiment with their identities, experience the agony and ecstasy of first like-like, and test the limits of their hip vegetarian teacher's sense of humor."