The order in which the stories of Alan Garner's quartet appear may confuse those who like their genealogies well ordered. But the young should be encouraged to read them as soon as they appear. Like memories, they are reworked in the head after their impact as events. The Stone Book is still for me the foundation of a literary experience of great power. Tom Fobble's Day and Granny Reardun keep the clarity and precision, particularly of time, place and persons…. Garner has made his text as clear as the sky and as hard as frost…. This is archetypal children's literature in our day. (pp. 41-2)
Margaret Meek, "Seven to Eleven: 'Tom Fobble's Day' and 'Granny Reardun'," in The School Librarian, Vol. 26, No. 1, March, 1978, pp. 41-2.
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