MIKE CELIZIC The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-19-1993 MATTINGLY IS THE MAN By MIKE CELIZIC Date: 09-19-1993, Sunday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday This thing that's happening at Yankee Stadium has nothing to do with believing in miracles. It's a...

BOB HERTZEL, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-08-1994 NO GLAMOUR FOR MATTINGLY By BOB HERTZEL, Staff Writer Date: 04-08-1994, Friday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early Biographical:...

[The Beany Malone series is mentioned in Rebecca Radner's essay discussing the limiting effect on girls of some of the teenage literature written during the nineteen-forties and fifties.] Recently I became curious about just what in these books exerted such a strong pull on our young imaginations. (p. 789)

The writing [of A New and Different Summer] has an easy flow, but the story moves slowly; it has the appeals of familiar characters, a modest home setting, and realistic events, but the main theme (Katie Rose's menus and shopping extravaganzas) is somewhat belabored. (p. 172)

Zena Sutherland, in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (copyright 1966 by the University of Chicago; all rights reserved), June, 1966.

In [The Winds of March, a] sequel to Don't Call Me Katie Rose, the heroine, a sophomore at Adams High, has the smugness blown out of her by "the winds of March." In this month she has two chastening experiences. First, she must learn to stand by while the irresistible Bruce Seerie overlooks her intellect in favor of her sister's exuberance. The other crisis, a horrifying kidnapping, well handled by both Katie Rose and the author, helps her revise some of her lofty attitudes. Mrs....