Best Selling Books by Elizabeth Winthrop

Maggie is an angel in the Christmas pageant at church.

Bear is happily surprised to learn that Roly-Poly, his baby sister, likes to have him give her attention and even sing her to sleep.

Afraid to go to the hospital to have her tonsils out, Jenny is helped get over her fear by Cheer Bear and his friend.

Miranda feels left out of everything until she meets a jogger in training for a marathon. Despite her apprehension about a sudden attack of asthma, Miranda starts to run.

After quarreling over a doll, two girls come to realize that people make the best friends.

When one of her eggs is taken to be used in the Easter egg hunt, Mother Duck waddles off to the rescue.

Between 1933 and 1935, a young Italian American girl living in North Adams, Massachusetts, corresponds with President Franklin Roosevelt about the conditions in her town, Mr. Roosevelt''s New Deal programs, and her own family''s activities.

Elizabeth''s mother gets a respite from her very noisy girl when Elizabeth pretends to be a dog.

A little girl finds so many things to do before she is ready for bed that she is the last of her family to fall asleep.

A young girl experiences a range of emotions when her mother undergoes treatment for cancer.

Lucy and Henry are brother and sister, who--even though they''re twins--don''t do everything the same way.

A young peasant, with the help of his faithful horse, captures magical beasts, marries the woman he loves, and becomes Tsar of Russia.

Once he overcomes his initial fear, Bear has fun playing with his new baby sitter, Mrs. Duck.

An adaptation of the Bible story of Christ''s Crucifixion and Resurrection.

When Maia and her best friend, a fuzzy purple monster that visits her room each night, both get baby sisters, many things change but the girls are sure their friendship will last forever.

A second-grader describes how he feels when his father comes all the way from Delaware to Arizona to spend a week with him.

A little girl proves to her parents that she can be trusted with her new baby brother.

Maggie wants to get rid of the monster that visits her room every night and accepts her mother''s suggestion to simply ask the monster what it wants.

An illustrated retelling of the birth of Jesus.

A boy and a girl build a castle and play in it.

"As a child, Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop, along with her five brothers, was raised to revere the tribal legends of the Alsop and Roosevelt families. Her parents'' marriage, lived in the spotlight of 1950s Washington where the author''s father, journalist Stewart Alsop, grew increasingly famous, was not what either of her parents had imagined it would be. Her mother''s strict Catholicism and her father''s restless ambition collided to create a strangely muted and ominous world, one that mirrored the whispered conversations in the living room as the power brokers of Washington came and went through their side door. Through it all, her mother, trained to keep secrets as a decoding agent with MI5, said very little. In this brave memoir, the author explores who her mother was, why alcohol played such an important role in her mother''s life, and why her mother held herself apart from all her children, especially her only daughter. In the author''s journey to understand her parents, particularly her mother, she comes to realize that the secrets parents keep are the ones that reverberate most powerfully in the lives of their children."--Page 4 of cover.

Lizzie wants a best friend more than anything else, but, as she explains to Harold who would like to be her best friend, it must be a girl.

Bunk beds become a ship, a house, and a car to a brother and sister playing at bedtime.

Emily''s summers at her grandparents'' farm were always special and unchanging, but nothing seems the same the summer her best friend comes to visit.

Two brothers and their mother each try in their own way to come to terms with the father''s death and in the process learn to cope with a disease that threatens to cripple all of them.

An adaptation of the Bible story of Christ''s Crucifixion and Resurrection.

Miranda finds herself on the spot with her best friend and also with a new friend she meets while running. Sequel to Marathon Miranda.

While Strawberry Shortcake and her friends are flying their hot air balloons, the Purple Pieman sends the Berry Birds after their berry crops.

Introduces the characteristics of the sun, moon, and planets.