Get ready to smile and sigh and shake your head in wonder as you meet 10 year old Janey and 5 1/2 year old Rufus Moffat, and the rest of the Moffat family -- Mrs. Moffat, Joey, 12, and Sylvie, 15 -- who live in the town of Cranbury, CT in a yellow house with kerosene lamps and a very unwanted Fo...
I like Eleanor Estes, but this was not my favorite of hers. The vignettes of the youngest Moffat take place during the end of WWI. I admit it was interesting for me to read how people lived in those times, and in many ways how children of today, are much like children a hundred years ago. But I k...
Full review posted on Across the LitoverseIn truth, Jane is one of four Moffat children, meaning she shares her middle child status with an older brother; however, she coins her title after noticing her mother simply introduces her as just Jane. Sylvie is the eldest child; Rufus, the youngest; an...
There has never been a museum in Cranbury...until now.Among its treasures are the first bike each of the Moffat kids rode, stardust from a meteor that fell to earth, a beautiful painting made by Sylvie, and-most spectacularly-Rufus, the Waxworks Boy, who is as funny as he is waxy. The museum is s...
Non-Print Audio Book on CDRecommended for Ages 6-12Amazon.com Review of BookWanda Petronski lives way up in shabby Boggins Heights, and she doesn't have any friends. Every day she wears a faded blue dress, which wouldn't be too much of a problem if she didn't tell her schoolmates that she had a h...