The atmosphere of the artistic and musical world [in Traveling Shoes, U.S. title of Apple Bough] is vivid, the children are sophisticated but completely convincing; characterization and motivation are perceptively described. To adult readers, the whole milieu is reminiscent of the unconventional musical family of The Constant Nymph.

Zena Sutherland, "New Titles for Children and Young People: 'Traveling Shoes'," in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (reprinted by permission of The University of Chicago Press; copyright 1962 by the University of Chicago), Vol. 16, No. 4, December, 1962, p. 66.