Noel Streatfeild has written few stories more pertinent than this study of young Harriet and her career as a champion ice-skater [White Boots]. The fierce pressure of competitions, the jealousies and contrivances, are related with quiet humour and with sympathy for children who suffer from parental ambition.

Margery Fisher, "A Pair of Ice Skates," in her Growing Point, Vol. 8, No. 6, December, 1969, p. 1452.∗