(1943) are equally percipient and even stronger in portraying the World War I period. Although the events are commonplace, Estes perfectly captured children’s observations, logic, and speech patterns in prose notable for its immediacy and insight. In a series of loosely related episodes, the children attend dance school, frighten a school bully, and worry about moving to a new house. Older siblings Sylvie and Joey are well-defined characters, but the book usually focuses on the most original thinking members of the family, eight-year-old Janey and five-year-old Rufus. The Moffats (1941) is a charming, humorous family story about a fatherless family in Cranbury, Connecticut. She worked as a children’s librarian at the New York Public Library until her first book was published. Following high school graduation, the author worked at the New Haven Public Library, then won a scholarship to the Pratt Institute Library School in Brooklyn, where she met her husband. With her rare gift for depicting everyday experiences from the fresh perspective of childhood, Eleanor Estes based many of her stories on memories of growing up in a poor but loving family in West Haven, Connecticut.
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