The Four-Story Mistake is a house—a very odd-looking house because the architect had mistakenly built only three stories when the owner had ordered four, and the unimaginative owner added a fourth story in the shape of a cupola when he really should have left well enough alone.

Into the Four-Story Mistake moved the Melendy family—Rush, Mona, Oliver, Randy, Father, and Cuffy, their long-suffering housekeeper. Here they soon forgot their dejection at having to leave their old brownstone house in New York City, and became busily absorbed in the life exciting adventures of life in the country. They adjusted themselves to the changed environment with all of their accustomed resourcefulness and it wasn't long before the children discovered that the Four-Story Mistake had all sorts of attractions.

THE FOUR-STORY MISTAKE proves again that few writers for girls and boys today are able to understand children, their interests and their joys, as well as the popular author of THIMBLE SUMMER and THE SATURDAYS.

From the dust jacket