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.

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

Biography.

Carolina''s family makes the long journey by ox drawn covered wagon from New Hampshire to Nebraska. The last stage of the trip is made in safety because Carolina is brave enough to play with an Indian child and exchange dolls with her.

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 author explains the tools of the writing trade, how the writer chooses a subject, develops the narrative, keeps the reader interested, and the discipline involved to become a writer.

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.

The Carey girl is Kit, alone in New York, an unwanted child of divorce, and now unwanted by Hugo -- with whom she has fallen in love, and who does not show up for a weekend date. Suicide seems an answer to her unhappiness, but although she buys- and takes- some (rat) poison, the next morning finds her alive- and apparently well. But later in the day severe pain drives her to a clinic, puts her in the hands of a Dr. Brown who cannot save her and who knows that she has only a few days to live. At his wife''s suggestion he brings her home with him, and together they help her to learn what life is- so that she can face death without fear- and through them, with them, she is at peace.... A small story- with an incandescent, inspirational message -- oversimplified to be sure for a certain, conservative audience.