[Party Shoes] describes in detail the preparations for and many characters involved in giving a pageant. Details may become boring to many readers, although Streatfeild fans will undoubtedly enjoy it. The children are natural; with a more extended plot the story would have been an interesting one of postwar Britain.

Josephine E. Lynch, "'Party Shoes'," in Library Journal, Vol. 72, No. 10, May 15, 1947, p. 818.