Although the setting and situations [of Thursday's Child] are in the turn-of-the-century tradition of "orphan stories," the heroine is a remarkably contemporary character whose final decision to remain independent of her would-be benefactors is logical and consistent with a fully realized personality. A fresh and sprightly addition to a perennially popular genre.

Mary M. Burns, "Spring Booklist: 'Thursday's Child'," in The Horn Book Magazine (copyright © 1971 by The Horn Book, Inc., Boston), Vol. XLVII, No. 3, June, 1971, p. 294.