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| Edition: | Harcourt (Paperback) |
| Author: | Eleanor Estes |
| Published: | April 2001 |
| Pages: | 224 |
| ISBN 10: | 0152025413 |
| New: | $1.69 (56) |
| Used: | $0.01 (169) |
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The Moffats is a children's novel by the American author Eleanor Estes.
First published in 1941, it tells the story of a fatherless family in Cranbury, Connecticut: Mama, Sylvie, Joey, Janey and Rufus. Of these, Janey (aged 8) and Rufus (aged 5) tend to be the focus of the stories, which are episodic in nature. The stories are based on Estes's memories of her childhood, and focus on a working-class, single-parent American family during the First World War.
Estes wrote three further Moffats books: The Middle Moffat (1942) and Rufus M. (1943) again focused on the younger two Moffats. After a long pause, Estes wrote The Moffat Museum in 1983, continuing the story in the post-war years.
The novels were illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, with the exception of The Moffat Museum, which was illustrated by the author. The Middle Moffat and Rufus M. were chosen as Newbery Honor books.
