Moving Day for the Middlemans

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Esphyr Slobodkina’s award-winning children’s books have delighted children and parents for generations. Caps for Sale is a particular favorite, as is Sleepy ABC, which was written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Slobodkina. Please click on a thumbnail below to view sample pages and learn more about each text.

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Moving Day for the Middlemans, written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina. Published in 1960 by Abelard.

Moving is exciting, but sometimes it can be sad. For if you live in a nice house that’s not too big and not too small, that’s not too new and not too old, that has something special for everyone in the family—even the dolls—you don’t want to leave it for a less agreeable place.

That’s how the Middlemans felt about their house, but they knew they had to move to Middletown where Mr. Middleman had a new job. They were in despair until Uncle Marty had a wonderful idea: they would move the house to Middletown!