The Moffats

Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Estes, Eleanor, 1906-1988
Other Authors: Slobodkin, Louis, 1903-1975 (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Harcourt, 2001.
Edition:1st Harcourt Young classics ed.
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Summary:Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.
Item Description:"An Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic"--verso t.p.
Sequel: The middle Moffat.
Physical Description:210 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
ISBN:0152025359 (hc)
9780152025359 (hc)
0152025413 (pb)
9780152025410 (pb)
Author Notes:Eleanor Estes was born in West Haven, Connecticut on May 9, 1906. She graduated from the Pratt Institute Library School and worked as a children's librarian in branches of the New York Public Library system. Her first book, The Moffats, was published in 1941. Her other works include The Hundred Dresses and Ginger Pye, which won a John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished children's book in 1952. She also wrote a single adult novel entitled The Echoing Green. She died of complications following a stroke on July 15, 1988 at the age of 82.

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