The House that Sailed Away
by Pat Hutchins; ill. Laurence Hutchins (Greenwillow Books, 1975)
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The title promises hijinks and adventure, and the book is certainly written as if it’s funny… but the sardonic mother-in-law jibes grow quickly old, and Hutchins hardly covers herself in glory by portraying Mother as a pitiable lump of vagueness and domesticity.