["Leave It to Beany!" the fifth] book about the Malones will please all their fans in Junior High. Beany, the youngest, now sixteen, is shown in a humorous portrait, over-doing her role of helping every one and managing everything…. It is all fairly improbable, even for the high air of Denver, but it is at the same time warm-hearted and a good family portrait. It is rather a relief to find, in a children's book, a family going to mass together.

Motherless Beany rings true, so does the cooking by young and old, and the newspaper background. John's struggles with his history of Denver make a clever sub-plot, and the glimpses of several teachers are well done. The romance is played down, in a refreshingly humorous way. On the whole, better than most series books. (p. 10)

Louise S. Bechtel, in New York Herald Tribune Book Review (© I.H...