The preceding "Shoes" stories lifted Miss Streatfeild into the first rank of contemporary children's authors. "Theater Shoes," the best, lifts a book for children into general literature. We have novels for grown-ups about distinguished theatrical families and the working out of hereditary instinct in ways various and unexpected. Now for the first time we have a book for and about children, interesting them from the first and entertaining them till the last, which presents such a family, three generations at once on the stage, and holds the attention of any older reader interested in theatrical psychology.

May Lamberton Becker, "Stage Folk: 'Theater Shoes'," in New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, November 11, 1945, p. 28.