In a survey of Australian children's books dealing with the Australian bush, Susan Sheridan and Emma Maguire noted: "In their preferred method of research, and in their dealings with the bureaucracy, these children mark out a specifically modern, as well as Australian, mode of the Enid Blyton or Arthur Ransome adventure story in a natural setting.""Relationships to the Bush in Nan Chauncy’s Early Novels for Children" by Susan Sheridan and Emma Maguire, JASAL, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2014
