![]() ![]() Mona visits a beauty parlor, and hears the story of a young runaway. Rush goes to the opera, and discovers the stray Isaac. Randy visits an art exhibit, and has tea with a family friend. They call it the Independent Saturday Afternoon Adventure Club (I.S.A.A.C.). One rainy day, the four children conceive the idea of pooling their weekly allowances, and taking turns going off alone on adventures. The children's mother is dead, but they accept this with the equanimity of most children in books, and live securely with Father, their longtime housekeeper Cuffy, and handy-man Willy Sloper. ![]() Originally published in 1941, The Saturdays tells of several months in the life of the Melendys, as they live in their New York brownstone. The Saturdays is the first of four books about the Melendy children: Mona, Rush, Randy, and Oliver. This weekend I finished listening to The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (1909-1968), one of my all time favorite authors. ![]()
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