[Any one] who is familiar with Sally Benson's work will know how deft and subtle and amusing "Junior Miss" is. Though she has forsworn the sophisticated wit and irony for which she is so noted, these seemingly simple sketches still bear her hallmark and are no less adroit than her earlier stories. In writing of Judy Graves's minor adventures, Mrs. Benson is as pithy and concise as ever, as much a master of the perfect phrase, with an added quality of warmth and gentleness which, until now, she has rather conspicuously lacked. "Junior Miss" is, needless to say, a very slight book and even perhaps a trivial one, but it is written with an artistry which one cannot sufficiently admire. On its own tiny scale it is almost flawless.

Edith H. Walton, "Miss Benson's Judy," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1941 by The New York Times Company...