THE MOFFATS

Lots of fun on little money—that might be the theme of this delightful story of the yellow house on New Dollar Street, Cranbury, and the family who lived in it, Mama, Joey, Rufus, Sylvie and 9-year-old Jane (not to mention Madame, the bust that Mama used for trying on ladies' dresses). The flavor of the 1890's in a small country town is splendid, the children are real and individuals, the things that happen to them—and that they happen to—are fun to read about. They are usually able to forget the FOR SALE sign on their lovely yellow house, and even when they know the house has been sold, with true Moffat irrepressibility they find another that will surely be as nice when they get to know it. Might this, perhaps be the answer for the children who want more books like the perennial Five Little Peppers? The drawings by Louis Slobodkin are just right—line with humor and originality and enough sense of story.