Four reasons to cheer!Meet the Melendys! Mona, the eldest, is thirteen. She has decided to become an actress and can recite poetry at the drop of a hat. Rush is twelve and a bit mischievous. Miranda is ten and a half. She loves dancing and painting pictures. Oliver is the youngest. At six, he is a calm and thoughful person. They all live with their father, who is a writer, and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, who takes on the many roles of nurse, cook, substitute mother, grandmother, and aunt.Elizabeth Enright?s Melendy Quartet, which captures the lively adventures of a family as they move from the city to the country, are being publishedin new editions. Each of the books features a foreward and signature black-and-white interior illustrations by the author. Popular artist Tricia Tusa provides irresistible new cover art that will appeal to today?s readers.Card catalog descriptionThe Melendy family moves to a house in the country where a secret room, a cupola, a stable, and a brook provide Mona, Rush, Randy, and Oliver with adventures far different from the city life to which they are accustomed.About the AuthorElizabeth Enright (1909-1968) was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but spent most of her life in or near New York City. Originally envisioning a career solely in illustration, she studied art in Paris, France, and at the Parson's School of Design in New York City. After creating her first book in 1937, she developed a taste -- and quickly demonstrated a talent -- for writing.Throughout her life, Elizabeth Enright wrote and illustrated numerous books, winning many awards in the process. Among those awards were the 1939 John Newbery Medalfor Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake. The first of the Melendy Quartet, The Saturdays, was published in 1941. Translated into numerous languages throughout the world, her stories have been known and loved by many for generations.

The Four-Story Mistake

Elizabeth Enright

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Read by Joan AllenApprox. 4 hours3 cassettesA few hours after nine-year-old Garnet linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock and money for Garnet's father. The summer proves to be interesting and exciting in so many different ways. Every day brings adventure of some kind to Garnet and her best friend, Citronella. As far as Garnet is concerned, the thimble is responsible for each good thing that happens during this magic summer--her thimble summer.Joan Allen has been nominated for an Academy Award three times for her roles in Nixon, The Crucible and most recently The Contender. She has also appeared in a number of other films such as The Ice Storm, Face-Off, and Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Thimble Summer

Children's Books

Puffin Books

Then There Were Five (Puffin Books)

Spiderweb for Two (Puffin Books) {Spider Web for Two }

Spider Web for Two (Puffin Books)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Gone-Away Lake

<p>Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.</p>

Literature & Fiction

Harcourt Childrens Books (J)

Return to Gone-away (Reader's Choice)

scholastic

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Teen & Young Adult

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books

The Sea is All Around Us

Farrar & Rinehart

<p>For use in schools and libraries only. Portia and her cousin Julian discover summer adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.</p>

Harcourt

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