Pub Date: September 1, 2004
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2003057037
Lexile Code: 0870
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 06 to 09
Physical Info: 0.50" H x 8.30" L x 6.50" W ( 0.50 lbs) 80 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Classics | Social Themes | Friendship | Prejudice Racism and Colorism | School and Education | Girls and Women | Clothing Dress and Hair
Description: The Newbery Honor-winning book about prejudice and understanding is now available in this restored edition that recaptures the vivid artwork of Slobodkin. Includes a letter to readers from the author's daughter that relates the true story behind the book.
Brief description:
Eleanor Estes (1906-1988) grew up in West Haven, Connecticut, which she renamed Cranbury for her classic stories about the Moffat and Pye families. A children's librarian for many years, she launched her writing career with the publication of The Moffats in 1941. Two of her outstanding books about the Moffats--Rufus M. and The Middle Moffat--were awarded Newbery Honors, as was her short novel The Hundred Dresses. She won the Newbery Medal for Ginger Pye.
Review Quotes:
"Sensitive, intuitive, restrained . . . will take its place with the books that endure."--Saturday Review "Written with rare intuition and pictured with warm sympathy and charm."--The Horn Book "No young person . . . will ever forget it."--Book Week