Mary Stolz stands high among the fine writers for young people. Although "Who Wants Music on Monday?" is not her best book, it stands head and shoulders above most teen-age novels in the quality of its writing.

The Dunne children are interesting young people, alive and intensely believable…. [Their] vital concerns are seen by the reader in a vacuum, rather than in action or conflict. At the end of the book Vincent is expected at home with his Negro roommate, but we are not shown the expected encounter. The reader is left with a sense of disappointment and incompleteness. We want very much to know the rest of the story. (p. 22)

Madeleine L'Engle, in The New York Times Book Review (© 1964 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), February 23, 1964.