Commire, Anne, ed. "Robert (Atkinson) Westall." In Something About the Author. Vol. 23. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981: 235-236. The entry is dated, but contains a variety of interesting quotations from Westall.

Hadley, Eric. "Robert (Atkinson) Westall." In Twentieth Century Children's Writers. Edited by Tracy Chevalier.

3d ed. Chicago: St. James, 1989: 10271028. Features a complete bibliographic listing of Westall's published work through 1989 but does not mention Urn Burial.

Hemesath, James B. Review. In Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual, 1989. Edited by Robert A. Collins and Robert Latham. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1990: 486-487.

"Robert Westall." In Fifth Book of Junior Authors and Illustrators. Edited by Sally Holmes Holtze. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1983: 322-324. Contains an interview with Westall.