Elizabeth Winthrop is the author of more than 50 works of fiction for all ages. She is the winner of the DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER AWARD, the PEN SYNDICATED FICTION Award...
Elizabeth Winthrop's latest book, inspired by a famous Lewis Hine photograph, is an extraordinary journey that takes two paths. First is the fictional work itself, COUNTING ON GRACE, a novel which offers an unflinching glimpse of life in a 1910 mill town, and a spirited 12-year old girl who struggles against the mill's deadening effects.
Second is the real-life story behind the photograph that inspired the book, and Winthrop's steadfast determination to rescue the real child from the dustbins of history.
Latest breaking news:
IN 2007 VERMONT WILL BE READING COUNTING ON GRACE! Readers of all ages in over 60 Vermont communities will be reading COUNTING ON GRACE in 2007.
COUNTING ON GRACE selected as an American Library Association 2007 NOTABLE BOOK and a 2007 NOTABLE SOCIAL STUDIES TRADE BOOK by a Joint committee of the National Council for Social Studies and the Children's Book Council
Click the play button below to hear Elizabeth Winthrop's interview with Dick Gordon of WUNC North Carolina Public Radio about COUNTING ON GRACE
My classic picture book,
MAGGIE AND THE MONSTER with illustrations by the beloved Tomie dePaola now available from G. P. Putnam
THE CASTLE IN THE ATTIC and its sequel THE BATTLE FOR THE CASTLE, taught in schools across the country.
SQUASHED IN THE MIDDLE selected for American Library Association Notable List as well as Bank Street College Booklinks Best Books of the Year now nominated for the 2007-2008 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award in the Kindergarten - Grade 3 category ..the audio edition of COUNTING ON GRACE available from Listening Library in April...DOG SHOW sequel, THE BIGGEST PARADE with smashing pictures by Mark received a starred review from Publishers Weekly....THE FIRST CHRISTMAS STOCKING published to rave reviews…