Any one who has sent, perhaps at some personal sacrifice, a parcel of new wearing apparel to some one in England during the war, and then suddenly realized that the recipient must pay heavy duty, will take a personal interest in this latest, and I think best, of the famous "shoe" stories. For with constant humor and truth in every detail. ["Party Shoes"] shows what came of such a risk and how well it came out.

May Lamberton Becker, "Stories about Boys and Girls," in New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, May 11, 1947, p. 16.∗