New Releases by Elizabeth Yates

Based on the author''s diaries for the years 1931 through 1951, traces the development of her career as an author of children''s books while her husband, after losing his sight, becomes a leader in organizations for the blind.

The journal of a young writer beginning her career in New York City in the 1920''s, climaxed by her marriage to a young engineer and the beginning of a new life in England in 1929.

Drawing on her diaries and journals written from the time she was 12 until she was almost 20, the author depicts her life as the daughter of a well-to-do-upstate New York family and her determination to become a writer despite her family''s objections.

A man passes through life possessing in turn seven dogs, each of whom offers him love in a different way.

The mother of a young family in Temple, New Hampshire, manages the homestead while her husband fights at Bunker Hill and at Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.

A story about a real dog who is helping to heal emotionally disturbed children.

Several people attending a simple Christmas Eve service and curiously touched by a legend about that special evening.

An introduction to "the Granite State," the first of the thirteen colonies to declare its independence.

A sixteen-year-old lad, who can paddle, sing, and swim, signs a three-year contract as a voyageur and joins an expedition to northwest Canada in 1750 to search for furs and his future.

Biography.

Howard Thurman is an unusual man and this book is his inspiring story. Born in Daytona Beach, Florida, at the turn of the century, he was the grandson of slaves. He is a minister and teacher whose life is characterized by the quest, in a world of divisive complexity, for the nuggets of common experience that bind brother to brother and man to man. His is a deeply personal faith; he a modern mystic who seeks not only insights into the nature of God, but ever richer experiences of God. (As written on the inside front cover.).

Sends material for Burkett''s "interesting project."

The traditional folk carol The Twelve Days of Christmas, is a memory game. I used to be called Jolagiafir, and was sung and danced on Twelfth Night. The singers who could sing the song in the right order were to have good luck for the rest of the year.

This is not a stereotyped biography, but a significant living through the years with a remarkable person--Dorothy Canfield Fisher--writer, educator, wife and mother, great American, friend to the world.