There were later volumes under the same title, at least four more anthologies, and collected editions appearing from 1853.
[1] The series was enduringly popular, and the final Whistle Binkie anthology appeared in 1890.
[2][3] While the intention at the time was to publish Scottish writers, later critics such as Edwin Morgan have attacked the series on grounds of taste.
[4] Alexander Laing saw in it "sentiment, mild pathos and sly humour" writing in 1857;[5] by a century later Hugh MacDiarmid could regard it as opening the way for children to be given "sentimental trash".
[6] Whistle Binkie was published in 1832 by David Robertson, a bookseller in Trongate, Glasgow.