The Moffats
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| Author | Eleanor Estes |
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| Illustrator | Louis Slobodkin |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace & World |
| Publication date | 1941 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 290 pp |
| Followed by | The Middle Moffat |
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. They are contemporaneous with their date of writing, and thus focus on the effects of the Second World War on a working-class American family.
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. The Middle Moffat and Rufus M. were chosen as Newbery Honor books.
