Another group, the West Bend Parents for Free Speech, formed to oppose these changes, and after a public hearing on June 3, the library board voted unanimously to make no changes to where the books were shelved or to the website.

[1] Four men, members of the Christian Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit against the city of West Bend and the West Bend Community Memorial Library where the book was featured in a display, stating that "their mental and emotional well-being was damaged by this book at the library" and that it contained language that would "put one's life in possible jeopardy, adults and children alike".

[1][4] In his review of Block's fifth installment of her Weetzie Bat series, Charles de Lint notes that, "she touches on dark matters...but she does so with warmth, humor, truth, and a whimsical nature that never manages to undermine the more serious concerns from which her stories grow".

In regard to Baby Be-Bop, de Lint states that the book includes some "wonderfully surreal scenes" that provide a "true no-holds-barred glimpse into both the turmoil of what it's like to be young and different".

[5] Diane Roback and Elizabeth Devereaux, writing in Publishers Weekly, called Baby Be-Bop a "keenly felt story" with "extravagantly imaginative settings and finely honed perspectives".