Guestbook
Are there guides for youth for journaling? I teach journaling for adults but am working with 13 - 18 year olds currently. Other's experiences?
Elizabeth - I am an elementary school teacher/librarian in Phoenix, Arizona. I am so pleased that "Counting on Grace" was selected as one of the nominees for the Grand Canyon Reader Award. Each year I form a book club of intermediate students to read the nominees and then vote for their favorites. I, of course, must read all the nominated titles. I loved the voice of "Counting on Grace". I was totally enthralled in her story. It took me several days before I could pick up one of the other titles that were nominated because they just don't have the substance that your story has. I can't wait for my kids to get a hold of your book! Thank you!
Mariann, we writers count so much on the enthusiasm of teachers like yourself Thank YOU for putting Counting on Grace in the hands of readers...
Elizabeth
I really loved Counting on Grace. I was fascinated by the story and then enchanted by the background information about how Addie was found. I am developing a traveling trunk for our county on this wonderful book so I can share her story with students and teachers alike.
Betty,
Thanks so much for your kind words about Grace. I'm fascinated to know what a traveling trunk for the county is and what it might contain. Could you elaborate?
Elizabeth
For a few years now i have been reading books in the teens section in the library and really enjoying it. I've just finished "The Castle in the Attic" and loved it and looking forward to read "The Battle for the Castle", and more books by Elizabeth Winthrop.
Angie from Alabama,
Thanks so much for your kind words about CASTLE. You might also enjoy my newest novel, COUNTING ON GRACE.
I'm always thrilled to hear from my readers. It keeps me going.
Elizabeth
Dear Ms. Winthrop,
I listened to Counting on Grace and was so touched by Grace and Addie's stories that I googled Lewis Hine to see more of his work. (Oh, the little barefoot newsies! They have stories, too!)
I loved Grace's voice and knew exactly what Miss Lesley meant when she told Grace that she writes just like she talks. (I also really enjoyed Lili Gamache's verbal portrayals of your characters. Isn't there an award for audiobook narrators?)
I didn't realize that you'd also written The Castle in the Attic until I visited your website. My son read it last year when he was in second grade. He'd come home excited to tell me about what new development had taken place. (He also had his gramdma read it b/c it was "such a good book.") Neither he nor I knew about its sequel until today. He's looking forward to getting his hands on it!!
All the best to you with your writing. I'll check back occassionally to see if there happens to be any news of a sequel about Grace, Arthur, and Miss Lesley.
Sincerely,
Lisa Amoroso-Johnson
Dear Lisa A-J,
I completely agree with you that the Lilli Gamache reading of COUNTING ON GRACE is so right. She captured my characters perfectly and listening to it moves me so much that I forget sometimes that I wrote the book. There is an award for audiobooks and her reading is the Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award. For those wbeephaven't heard Lilli, you can click here to check out a clip.
http://elizabethwinthrop.com/newsandevents.html
As to Lewis Hine, you should look at a website by my friend and researcher, Joe Manning. http://www.morningsonmaplestreet.com
Joe is finding so many of the descendants of Lewis Hine subjects including some of those little "newsies" you mention.
What a lovely story about THE CASTLE IN THE ATTIC... You might want to check back occasionally to hear news of a possible movie of that book and the sequel, something that's more likely to happen sooner than a sequel about my dear Grace.
Elizabeth
Dear Elizabeth,
Thank you for responding to my e-mail and referring me to Joe Manning's website. I visited the site and thoroughly enjoyed learning more about Addie and other children from Lewis Hines' work.
It's disturbing to think that conditions like those that Hines photographed still exist for children in some parts of the world today. I'm hopeful that social change will happen for them, too.
Also, my son inhaled with excitement when I told him that there might be an upcoming movie about The Castle in the Attic. How fun!
Have a wonderful summer.
Lisa
Hello Elizabeth,
This is a very belated note. I enjoyed meeting you at the Writing the Sacred workshop I led at First Congregational Church in Williamstown, Mass back in May 2007. At the end of the workshop you gave me one of your postcards about your books.
Since that time I have visited your website and arranged for the librarian at the congregation I attend in Vancouver to order a copy of Counting on Grace for the church library.
I wish you continued success with your writing. Have you had time to write any spiritual poetry/psalms since the workshop?
Best regards,
Ray McGinnis
Hi, Ray:
Thanks for ordering my novel COUNTING ON GRACE. I very much enjoyed your workshop. Since January, I've been writing a poem a day and some of them are laments, others blessings, others a form of psalm.
Best wishes,
Elizabeth
Hello i need to do a biography on you can i have some info??
~Connor~
Thank you for the advice, and it worked! My father gave me "what if's" and im working on a story called "What If?" pretty plain name but im almost done.=)=)
~Connor~
1. What is your country of orgin? Where do you currently live?
2. What books have you written other than The Castle in the Attic?
3. What comments do you have on your books?
4. What is two interesting facts about you?
Thank you for your support!