The Four-Story Mistake [SEP] illustrator
The Four-Story Mistake
The Four-Story Mistake is a children's novel written and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1942. It is the second book in the Melendy family series which Enright inaugurated in 1941. The family leaves World War II-era New York City for a house in the country, a house that is an adventure in itself.
In 2012 "The Four-Story Mistake" was ranked number 80 among all-time best children's novels in a survey published
century, reissued American editions of the Gone-Away books featured cover art by Harry Potter illustrator Mary GrandPre but retained the Krushes' interior illustrations.
Enright also wrote the popular Melendy Quartet, a series of four children's novels published between 1941 and 1951: "The Saturdays", "The Four-Story Mistake", "Then There Were Five", and "Spiderweb for Two." This series tells the adventures of four siblings who live in New York City and later in upstate New York with their father