To any adult who recalls with delight Noel Streatfeild's Parson's Nine, many years ago, this juvenile story of a clergyman's family in contemporary London [New Shoes] will have special appeal. The four Bell children take a sombre view of their father's decision to move to a city parish…. How these four inventive new Londoners integrate with their new surroundings and help their new neighbors cohere into a functioning group makes a lively, cozy story of a household one third mischief, one third ingenuity, and one third love. American children are a devoted claque for Miss Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes, Movie Shoes, etc. This affords a new angle.

"Eight to Eleven: 'New Shoes'," in Virginia Kirkus' Service, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3, February 1, 1960, p. 90.