[Thursday's Child is a] substantial book of absorbing fiction, among so many puffed up with secondary virtues. 'After Dickens' in its wealth of incident and mosaic of chapters; focusing with varying intensity on each of four central orphans and many subsidiary characters, it has power to play upon our sentiments and on our credulity.

Muriel Hutton, "Book Reviews: 'Thursday's Child'," in The School Librarian, Vol. 19, No. 1, March, 1971, p. 73.