Love stories, good love stories, are rare today. [Bridge to Terabithia] is a beautiful one, encompassing all the tones and nuances of deep feeling, all the entanglement lovers feel with each other's sensitivities and interpretations of life….
This is not a love story of physical encounter but a fusion of souls and minds. To shy Jess, Leslie's philosophy opens new doors. Her sudden death threatens to crush him before he has learned to live her teachings. Her strength, however, continues to move within him, permitting him to move toward maturity and carry the land of Terabithia in his heart. There is a truth, a realism to the childlike expressions of fear, love, and friendship that should assure the author a permanent place among those whose books are sought by author, the kind whose names guarantees perfection of the writing craft. (p. 368)
Mrs. Hildagarde Gray, in Best Sellers (copyright © 1978 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation), February, 1978.
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