Rufus M.
Written by Eleanor Estes
Narrated by Christina Moore
4.5/5
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Eleanor Estes
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.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A collection of largely unrelated short stories about Rufus, the youngest in the Moffat family. He lives with his mother, and three older siblings in Cranbury, Massachusetts. In each story, Rufus ponders and obsesses over some little thing that young children do ponder and obsess over. When a neighbor buys a player piano (which Rufus has never heard of) he believes there is an invisible man in the woman's house playing the piano. When he sees eyes reflecting light in a dark uninstalled water pipeline, he believes it is a wolf, and sets out plans to catch it and tame it. He finds some money frozen under ice on the sidewalk, and is determined to get it out of the ice and buy supper for his family with the money. The stories are all about small things - because small things are big to small children.A charming, refreshing little book that has aged well.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I loved all these stories about all the cousins. I should re-read them. Is this the one where the uncle is the youngest tot?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rufus is a young 7 year old boy that is the youngest in the Moffat family. They live on a unique street and in the begging there is a war going on and the class tries to help. There are lots of problems in Rufus's life and he is fun to read about. Rufus Moffat needs to figure out how to deal with his own problems too. I like this book because I like reading about little kids and their life. It was not my favorite because I like mysteries better and tense books. I hope you will like it too.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Warm and sweet. This book is, in addition to being a story about Rufus Moffat and his siblings, a snapshot of America at the end of WWII. I enjoyed it. I do loathe Louis Slobodkin's illustrations, though. I had to not look at them as I read.