The Moffats

Cleanliness Children's Bad Words Mild Obscenities & Substitutions - 4 Incidents: pooh, criminenty, shucks Name Calling - 6 Incidents: hoodlums, old sardine, young whippersnapper, old geezer, Religious Profanities - 29 Incidents: Goodness, Gee, Mercy on us, thank heavens Religious & Supernatural - 1 Incid......more

The Moffat family I think, is set during WWI and follows the day to day adventures of the children. This was probably a 3.5 for us but I think the book would be more interesting to a younger child. We really enjoyed Louis Slobodkin's illustrations.......more

The yellow house on New Dollar Street was the best house on the whole block. Because it stood exactly half-way down the street, you could see all the way to both corners: all the way down to Elm Street where the trolley ran and all the way down Wood Street where the railroad tracks ran. Perhaps what......more

What a surprisingly delightful book. I had previously delayed reading it because I thought it might be too cutesy, but instead it was simply lots of fun! Mrs. Moffat is a single mother living in Cranbury, Connecticut (a stand-in for West Haven) with her four children, Sylvia, Joe, Jane and Rufus. Th......more

I picked up this book (copyright 1941) at a thrift shop. I love reading children's books, especially the old-fashioned, heartwarming kind. I didn't give this book 5 stars because it is perfectly profound, but because it is perfectly simple. It is just what it appears to be--an everyday story about e......more