Most Popular Books by Elizabeth Coatsworth

A Newberry Medal Winner This timeless fable has been a classic since its first publication in 1930, and this beautifully reillustrated edition brings the magic and wonder of the tale to a new generation of readers. In ancient Japan, a struggling artist is angered when his housekeeper brings home a tiny white cat he can barely afford to feed. But when the village’s head priest commissions a painting of the Buddha for a healthy sum, the artist softens toward the animal he believes has brought him luck. According to legend, the proud and haughty cat was denied the Buddha’s blessing for refusing to accept his teachings and pay him homage. So when the artist, moved by compassion for his pet, includes the cat in his painting, the priest rejects the work and decrees that it must be destroyed. It seems the artist’s life is ruined as well—until he is rewarded for his act of love by a Buddhist miracle.

Quiet courage of a young woman who chooses to stay on her Maine farm rather than migrate to new lands with neighbors.

A book of anecdotes, impressions and descriptions of Maine country life in the middle of the twentieth century, gathered and told by the owner of a Maine farm. Included are stories of sea captains, hermits and tramps about everyday life, special days, folklore and humor.

Two boys of Greenland find a hidden valley in which live the descendants of a tenth-century expedition that sailed under Eric the Red.

While the majority of Internet users reside in industrialized nations, online access in the developing world has risen rapidly in recent years. As emerging technologies increasingly permit inexpensive and easy online access, the number of Internet users worldwide will only continue to expand. Computer-Mediated Communication: Issues and Approaches in Education examines online interactions from different national, cultural, linguistic, legal, and economic perspectives, exploring how the increasingly international and intercultural Internet affects the ways users present ideas, exchange information, and conduct discussions online. Educators, researchers, and practitioners will discover ways to effectively use Web-based technologies, transcending barriers to participate and collaborate in international projects that reflect the scope and scale of today''s global interactions.

The adventures of a cat who lives with a sea captain.

Because of the strange event in the white room, Laura realizes that life at High Farm can be restored to normal.

Ronnie kidnapped in Africa in retaliation for the death of a chief''s son, escapes into a remarkable journey with the great herd of shy swift antelopes.

Captured by pirates while sailing from Maine to Genoa in the years following the American Revolution, Sally and Andrew plan their escape after being sold to the sultan of Morocco.

Traveling to Yucatan with her archaeologist father, an American girl learns what it means to share a secret trust.

As her mistress becomes poorer, a little Mexican girl seeking a way to help takes their last valuable possession to pray before the statue of Saint Francis.

Sally and her aunts and uncles make a journey to a new home in Maine, in a little house on runners.

A fantasy about a young Maine farmer who marries one of the neighbor girls and almost lives to regret it.

An astonishing number of medieval garments survive, more-or-less complete. Here the authors present 100 items, ranging from homely to princely. The book’s wide-ranging introduction discusses the circumstances in which garments have survived to the present; sets and collections; constructional and decorative techniques; iconography; inscriptions on garments; style and fashion. Detailed descriptions and discussions explain technique and ornament, investigate alleged associations with famous people (many of them spurious) and demonstrate, even when there are no known associations, how a garment may reveal its own biography: a story that can include repair, remaking, recycling; burial, resurrection and veneration; accidental loss or deliberate deposition. The authors both have many publications in the field of medieval studies, including previous collaborations on medieval textiles such as Medieval Textiles of the British Isles AD 450-1100: an Annotated Bibliography (2007), the Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles (2012) and online bibliographies.

Stories about Alice, who lives in an old house in Maine and who has interesting, everyday adventures.

A sheep dog returns from herding two strayed ewes to find his master gone and the entire village deserted.

In 1360 AD, King Magnus Eirikson rules over a united Sweden and Norway—a Christian Scandinavia. Dark rumor has reached the king that the colonies in Greenland have fallen back into pagan ritual, along with an alarming report that the inhabitants of the Western Settlement have mysteriously disappeared, with farmsteads and churches left deserted. Magnus entrusts Paul Knutson with a ship and forty strong men to make contact with Greenland and to verify the truth of these stories. Among these men are Olav Sigurdsson—a young man sailing to prove his bravery to the king and to reclaim his father’s lost honor—and Eirik the Laplander, deeply loyal to Olav’s family, but a pagan viewed with suspicion by the other Christian Scandinavians. Upon confirming the disappearance of a whole settlement, Paul and his party follow a sparse trail of clues south across the seas toward “Vinland”—convinced that some of the colonists may still be alive. As the valiant band perseveres in the pursuit of answers for its king, going ever deeper south and westward into an unknown continent, Olav’s desire for justice for his father finally merges with the desire for success in their difficult quest. The Door to the North is another stirring example of Elizabeth Coatsworth’s authentic and captivating historical storytelling.

The author recreates the experiences of a childhood trip to Egypt where her passion for travel and writing began.

An anthology with many beautiful American Indian poems as well as exciting stories.

Goldsmiths'' products examined, combining discussion of object with analysis of inscription and design, and literary and archaeological evidence for smiths and their work.

Maine, where farming and sea-fearing meet, has its own way of looking at the world.

David Little doesn''t like bringing his children to an island off the coast of Maine to live, but he has no choice. After many adventures and scares, the family makes the island into a home.

A poor apprentice, taught to appreciate the written word, finds a magic piece of paper which provides him with seven tales that cure the emperor''s son of insomnia.

A little Norwegian girl discovers the truth about trolls.

A book of children''s songs and poems.

This story of a lost little boy found by the Indians is the first adventure recorded of a white child in England.

A boy who lived on the land, but loved the sea, and a girl who lived on the sea, but longed for the shore, trade places in 1882.