New Releases by Elizabeth Winthrop

Skinny, shy third-grader Luke cannot hide from Arthur, his personal bully, until it is time to pick roles for the class play.

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

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

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

Although Eddie appears to be a tough kid, he also plays with a dollhouse, a secret he feels he cannot reveal even to his closest friends.

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

While waiting out a fierce hurricane in her grandmother''s house on Fox Island, Belinda has a chance to get to know her grandmother''s reclusive neighbor, Mr. Fletcher.

Lizzie learns to share her best friend and enjoy it, too.

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.

Here are ‘shoes to skate in, shoes to skip in, shoes to turn a double flip in ’ . . . all worn by four tousle-headed active young children. ‘Illustrations keep all the action with the skippers, divers, and doers. Story hour groups will be checking out each other’s footwear after hearing this rollicking rhyming paean to shoes.’ —SLJ. A Reading Rainbow Selection Children''s Books of 1986 (Library of Congress)

A retelling of the story of the first Christmas.

Paul le dur, Paul la terreur, n''est pas si dur que ça. Il possède un secret... une maison de poupée.

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.

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

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

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

Steven has trouble learning to tie his shoes but hates to admit it.

Maggie is an angel in the Christmas pageant at church.

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

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

An illustrated retelling of the birth of Jesus.

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.

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.

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

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

A young girl''s kindness is rewarded by the mice inhabiting the magical underground world of Kakure-sato.

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