本书是萧红的代表作品。萧红的作品以抒情笔调抒写着自我主观感受；散文化的小说结构；重文化风俗和自然景物的描写，不在人物性格的刻画上浪费笔墨；故事情节断断续续，然而意味深长；童年趣事，妙趣横生。著名作家茅盾对《呼兰河传》的评价是："一篇叙事诗，一幅多彩的风土画，一串凄婉的歌谣。"(This book is Xiao Hong's masterpiece. Xiao's works express her subjective feeling in a lyric style. Her fictions are structured like essay. Her depictions focus on cultural customs and landscapes rather than personality. She told a story disjointedly but meaningfully, and depicted her childhood as full of wit and humor. The famous writer Shen Yanbing evaluated the Tales of Hulan River as "an idyll, a colorful picture depicting local customs and practices, a pathetic song.")