Noel Streatfeild Critical Essay | Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland

Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland

[The Family at Caldicott Place, American title of Caldicott Place] has a few contrivances and a pat ending; it also has several situations of great appeal: the integration of the foster-children, the move to the country and the solving of accompanying financial problems, and the return of father. The most appealing aspect of the book is, however, the easy, practiced writing of Mrs. Streatfeild: her attractive and varied (some just ever-so-slightly typed comic-rural) characters, the natural flow of the writing, and the conversations that show a keen ear for dialogue.

Zena Sutherland, "New Titles for Children and Young People: 'The Family at Caldicott Place'," in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (reprinted by permission of The University of Chicago Press; copyright 1969 by the University of Chicago), Vol. 22, No. 7, March, 1969, p. 119.