The Moffats

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name = The Moffats
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author = Eleanor Estes
illustrator = Louis Slobodkin
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Children's novel
publisher = Harcourt Brace & World
release_date = 1941
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 290 pp
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followed_by = The Middle Moffat

"The Moffats" is a children's novel by the American author Eleanor Estes.

First published in 1941, it tells the story of a fatherless family in Cranbury, Connecticut: Mama, Sylvie, Joey, Janey and Rufus. Of these, Janey (aged 8) and Rufus (aged 5) tend to be the focus of the stories, which are episodic in nature. They are contemporaneous with their date of writing, and thus focus on the effects of the First World War on a working-class American family.

Estes wrote three further Moffats books: "The Middle Moffat" (1942) and "Rufus M." (1943) again focused on the younger two Moffats. After a long pause, Estes wrote "The Moffat Museum" in 1983, continuing the story in the post-war years.

The novels were illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. "The Middle Moffat" and "Rufus M." were chosen as Newbery Honor books.