ESPECIALLY
FOR TEACHERS
Please
go to http://www.elizabethwinthrop.com/graceteachersguide.html
for
curriculum guides and links to other useful sites.
2008
APPEARANCES
I
am hard at work on a new (secret for the moment) project and so have
cut way down on my speaking engagements. However, here are a few
opportunities to come hear me speak about Counting
on Grace.
Sunday,
September 7, 2008
2
pm, HOUSE OF LOCAL HISTORY, Williamstown, Massachusetts
PowerPoint
Show with Booksigning to follow. Free and open to the public.
Saturday,
October 4, 2008
2
pm, Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, Massachusetts
http://www.wistariahurst.org/calendar
Elizabeth
Winthrop’s presentation on her newest novel, Counting on
Grace,
will be followed by a book signing with books available for purchase
and provided by Odyssey Bookstore.
Register
by September 19th.
Monday,
October 6, 2008
7
pm, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
NEW
ENGLAND WRITERS SERIES
http://www.fsc.edu/cultural/newenglandwriters.cfm
Wednesday,
November 12, 2008
7
pm, Unity Place, 201 West Franklin Boulevard, Gastonia, North
Carolina,
Author
reading and discussion in conjunction with Standing
on a Box, multi-part
community project exploring Greater Gaston's early
twentieth-century
textile
heritage and its influence on our present and future.
Author
and audience reception following presentation
http://www.glrl.lib.nc.us/eventsexhibits/hine.htm
OTHER
NEWS
In
a list of The Best Children’s Books of the Year by the
Children’s
Book Committee at the Bank Street College of Education, THE FIRST
CHRISTMAS STOCKING, An Original Fable for All Ages (ISBN #
0-385-90855-5) was selected
for outstanding merit.
Click
here to find two original knitting patterns for stockings.
http://www.elizabethwinthrop.com/christmas.html
A
poignant and original tale that explains how stockings came to be
hung by the hearth at Christmas, this book will appeal to adults and
children alike and most especially to the knitters on your Christmas
list. The pictures by Bagram Ibatoulline, who most recently
illustrated Kate DiCamillo's THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE,
are luminous and haunting.
"Ibatoulline
illustrates Winthrop's mid-length tale with snowy scenes in
appropriate soft-focus, featuring a very small child huddled in a
dim, sparsely furnished room knitting brightly decorated stockings as
her mother—and later on, her loving father—hover in
the
background. A tale of kindness recompensed." - Kirkus
Reviews
"Wrapped
in a handsome package—a tall, slim format that provides
plenty of
space for the dreamy, full-page colored-pencil pictures.
A lovely Christmas miracle."
-Booklist
SQUASHED
IN THE MIDDLE (ISBN:080506497), pictures by Pat Cummings
Click
here to go to the special teachers page for this book!
- Nominee for the
2007-2008 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award in
the Kindergarten – Grade 3 category
- American Library
Association NOTABLE BOOK
- BANK STREET BEST
BOOK OF THE YEAR
- ONE OF THE BEST NEW
BOOKS for the CLASSROOM, BookLinks
"Beginning
with the up-close, downcast face on the jacket, this direct picture
book personalizes the frustration of a middle child wanting to be
heard. Daisy's courage surprises her family into finally
understanding how she feels. Cummings' recognizable robust style and
intense palette give Daisy and her African-American family a modern,
familiar look." -Starred
Review, BOOKLIST
SHORT
STORIES
Here’s
a link to my first online web publication, a short short
story called
WHAT THE DOG DRAGGED IN.
http://www.kcoldiron.com/10x10x10/issue1/dogdragged.html
