[In When the Siren Wailed] Noel Streatfeild has written about evacuees from London…. In the end, of course, everything works out all right, but there is a theatricality about the whole plot which has little to do with the real events of the period. A somewhat over-romanticised story which has none of the authenticity of books like K. Barnes's Visitors from London or Miss Streatfeild's own Children of Primrose Lane which were written at the time.

Valerie Alderson, "Reviews: 'When the Siren Wailed'," in Children's Book Review (© 1975 by Five Owls Press Ltd.; all rights reserved), Vol. V, No. 1, Spring, 1975, p. 38.