Contemporary reviews
The book received a strong positive review by John Updike in The New York Times, in which he said, "While not quite so sprightly as Stuart Little, and less rich in personalities and incident than Charlotte's Web – that paean to barnyard life by a city humorist turned farmer – The Trumpet of the Swan has superior qualities of its own; it is the most spacious and serene of the three, the one most imbued with the author's sense of the precious instinctual heritage represented by wild nature."[1]
Awards
In the category Children's Books, The Trumpet of the Swan was a finalist the National Book Awards 1971, losing out to Lloyd Alexander's The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian.[2]
