Eleanor Estes Books In Order

Moffats Books In Order

  1. The Moffats (1941)
  2. The Middle Moffat (1942)
  3. Rufus M (1943)
  4. The Moffat Museum (1980)

Pye Books In Order

  1. Ginger Pye (1951)
  2. Pinky Pye (1958)

The Alley Books In Order

  1. The Alley (1964)
  2. The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode (1973)

Novels

  1. The Hundred Dresses (1944)
  2. The Witch Family (1960)
  3. Miranda the Great (1967)
  4. The Lost Umbrella of Kim Chu (1978)
  5. The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree (1979)
  6. The Curious Adventures of Jimmy McGee (1987)

Collections

  1. The Sleeping Giant (1948)

Picture Books

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Eleanor Estes Books Overview

The Moffats

Meet The Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and most days at least the responsible one; Joey, who though only twelve is the man of the house…
sometimes; Janey, who has a terrific upside down way of looking at the world; and Rufus, who may be the littlest but always gets in the biggest trouble. Even the most ordinary Moffat day is packed with extraordinary fun. Only a Moffat could get locked in a bread box all afternoon, or dance with a dog in front of the whole town, or hitch a ride on a boxcar during kindergarten recess. And only a Moffat could turn mistakes and mischief into hilarious one of a kind adventure. Eleanor Estes’s beloved Moffats stories are being published in new editions as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. The original interior illustrations have been retained, but handsome new cover art by Tricia Tusa gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today’s readers.

The Middle Moffat

Who is Jane Moffat, anyway? She isn’t the youngest in the family, and she isn’t the oldest she is always just Jane. How boring. So Jane decides to become a figure of mystery…
the mysterious ‘Middle Moffat.’ But being in the middle is a lot harder than it looks.
In between not rescuing stray dogs, and losing and finding best friends, Jane must secretly look after the oldest inhabitant of Cranbury…
so he can live to be one hundred. Between brushing her hair from her eyes and holding up her stockings, she has to help the girls’ basketball team win the championship. And it falls to Jane the only person in town with enough courage to stand up to the frightful mechanical wizard, Wallie Bangs.
Jane is so busy keeping Cranbury in order that she barely has time to be plain old Jane. Sometimes the middle is the most exciting place of all…
.
Eleanor Estes’s beloved Moffats stories are being published in new editions as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. The original interior illustrations have been retained, but handsome new cover art by Tricia Tusa gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today’s readers.

Rufus M

You’ve never met anyone quite like Rufus Moffat. He gets things done, but he gets them done his way.
When he wants to check out library books, Rufus teaches himself to write…
even though he doesn’t yet know how to read. When food is scarce, he plants some special ‘Rufus beans’ that actually grow…
despite his digging them up every day to check on them. And Rufus has friends that other people don’t even know exist! He discovers the only invisible piano player in town, has his own personal flying horse for a day, and tours town with the Cardboard Boy, his dearest friend and enemy.
Rufus isn’t just the youngest Moffat, he’s also the cleverest, the funniest, and the most unforgettable.
Eleanor Estes’s beloved Moffats stories are being published in new editions as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. The original interior illustrations have been retained, but handsome new cover art by Tricia Tusa gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today’s readers.

The Moffat Museum

There has never been a museum in Cranbury…
until now.
Among its treasures are the first bike each of the Moffat kids rode, stardust from a meteor that fell to earth, a beautiful painting made by Sylvie, and most spectacularly Rufus, the Waxworks Boy, who is as funny as he is waxy. The museum is so interesting that Mr. Pennypepper even brings tourists to visit.
But the museum is really for Jane, Joey, and Rufus themselves, so they can remember all the good times they’ve had. Because life is changing for the Moffats.
Yet even if Sylvie gets married, or Joey goes off to work, or Rufus grows up, one thing will never change: The Moffats are still the sort to hilariously fill even the most ordinary day with extraordinary fun.
Eleanor Estes’s beloved Moffats stories are being published in new editions as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. The original interior illustrations have been retained, but handsome new cover art by Tricia Tusa gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today’s readers.

Ginger Pye

A heartwarming, yet quirky, story about a boy called Jerry whose much loved puppy, Ginger Pye, goes missing. Jerry and his sister begin a desperate hunt for Ginger, who they’re convinced has been stolen away by the stranger in the yellow hat. After months of fruitless searching the children are about to give up hope when a chance gust of wind reveals the villain to the children and Ginger Pye is saved. BLA book which has stood the test of time and deals with the special relationship between a boy and his dog in a fun and lively way

Pinky Pye

Meet Pinky, a furious black kitten who adopts the Pye family. The Pyes have some of the smartest pets around there’s Ginger the intellectual dog, and Gracie the clever old cat but Pinky is more than smart enough to earn a place in the Pye’s hearts. She can box with ginger, play games with Mr. Pye, and Rachel and Jerry can hardly believe their eyes even type out her life Story!

The Alley

In the heart of Brooklyn, New York, there is an alley that is the most beautiful place to live in the whole wide world. Or so Connie Ives believes. The Alley is the perfect location to sharpen Connie’s swinging skills, hold practices for The Alley Conservatory of Music,andconvict a burglar by trial. From the bestselling author ofGinger Pyecomes the story of a little girl whose eyes are always open to the beauty of the world that surrounds her.

The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode

Nobody believed Hugsy Goode when he prophesied that a tunnel lay beneath the alley until generations later Nicholas alias Copin and Timothy alias Tornid decide to explore. And lo and behold, right under the vine covered hole outside the house where Hugsy Goode used to live, they find an entrance to adventures beyond their wildest dreams.
A sequel to The Alley.

The Hundred Dresses

Never out of print since its 1944 publication, this tender story offers readers of all ages a timeless message of compassion and understanding. At its heart is Wanda Petronski, an immigrant girl in an American school, who is ridiculed for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. When she tells her classmates that she has one hundred dresses at home, she unwittingly triggers a game of teasing that eventually ends in a lesson for all. In restoring the reproduction of Louis Slobodkin’s artwork, this new edition recaptures the original vivid color. And to celebrate the book’s enhanced beauty, Helena Estes, the daughter of the author, has written a new letter to readers about the true story behind The Hundred Dresses.

The Witch Family

Banished! Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly about on her broomstick crying Heh Heh! and casting abracadabras, but now she has been sent away…
by two young girls. Amy and Clarissa love to tell stories about Old Witch…
until one day they decide she is just too mean and wicked. Drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, the girls exile Old Witch there with the warning that she d better be good or else no Halloween! For company they draw her a Little Witch Girl and a Weeny Witch Baby. Old Witch tries to be good, but anyone would get up to no good in a place as lonely as the glass hill…
as Amy and Clarissa find out when Old Witch magics them into her world, a world of make believe made real.

Miranda the Great

Miranda was a cat of many accomplishments: she was a good mother; she could sing; she had once chased sixteen dogs, causing them to flee in disgrace. Long ago, she and her daughter Punka lived in Rome in a beautiful villa with a senator and his family. But when the city was invaded by barbarians, the family fled to safety without the cats. Left behind in the burning city, Miranda made her way through crowded streets with Punka, collecting motherless kittens as she went. At last she arrived at the vast Colosseum, where she established a haven. There it was, assisted by the valient Punka, that she preserved the lives of a multitude of kittens and cats who were to become the noble ancestors of the cats of modern Rome.

The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree

Ten year old Marianna desperately wants a Christmas tree but her mother refuses to be ‘like every tom dick and harry.’

The Curious Adventures of Jimmy McGee

Jimmy McGee is a tiny leprechaun like man who thinks of himself as nothing more than a plumber, even if he does do his job very quickly thanks to a certain magic he possesses called zoomie zoomies. But Jimmy’s life of turning on water and fixing dripping faucets is disrupted when he rescues Amy’s doll, Little Lydia, from a monstrous wave that sweeps her off the beach. Jimmy keeps Little Lydia safe under his stovepipe hat, right on top of his magic box, where he keeps bolts of thunder and lightning which causes Little Lydia to become electrified, out of control, be bop doll with the zoomie zoomies. Can Jimmy find a way to restore Little Lydia to her original state as a ‘do nothing doll’ before he returns her to her rightful owner?

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