New Releases by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

This heartwarming story by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock is based on a real-life event: the Vermont Flood of 1927. Watercolors by Caldecott Medal-winning artist Emily Arnold McCully capture both the sweeping drama of the flood and the comfort of a cozy kitchen filled with friends, neighbors, and good cheer

Reminiscences about the experiences a girl shared with her family throughout the various seasons on their Vermont farm.

At Helen’s home, there are no telephones or electric lights. Cars have not yet been invented, so she and her sister and brothers must walk a mile to school, even in freezing weather. Without refrigeration, they must harvest ice from the pond. But at night she and her family gather around the woodstove to hear stories of castles and princes in hiding. They take horse-drawn sleigh rides, snug under buffalo robes and wool blankets; skate in the moonlight; and on Christmas morning have real maple syrup for breakfast. With absorbing details of country life and elegant, hand-colored woodcuts, this book captures the strength of family, the magic of Christmas, and the love of place all year long.

To Ruby, her log-riding lumberjack pa is the most wonderful person in the world. There''s nothing she''d rather do than follow in his footprints, but a lumber camp is no place for an eight-year-old girl. So Ruby goes to school. There she discovers another passion -- the world that opens up to her in books. When circumstances suddenly change, Ruby fears she has lost the two things she loves most. But through her struggle, she discovers in herself the courage, kindness, and talent that she always admired in her father.

This chapter book tells the story of resourceful Margaret, a young girl growing up in turn-of-the-century Vermont who wants to follow in her physician-father''s footsteps. But girls can''t be doctors--can they? Illustrations.

Jack the Bookman August 2002.

Jack The Bookman.

Emma tells of her wonderful experience on her Uncle Will''s farm when she was ten as she spent time with her relatives, tended to the animals in the barn, helped make bread in the kitchen, and more.

The last year of World War I is an eventful one for Vermont farm boy Mason as he helps with the chores, tries to get along with his little brother, and sees an older bully go off to the war.

During the summer that Arlis spends with his grandparents in Vermont, his grandfather teaches him about loons, cross-country running, and responsibility, and when he returns home everyone finds out how much he has changed.

Ten-year-old Emma loves the summer she spends with her great-aunt and great-uncle and her cousins on their farm so much that she moves there when she has children of her own.

An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Book. The drama of this unbelievable but true story is enhanced by Ted Rand’s stunning illustrations. In June 1783, three-year-old Sarah Whitcher wanders into the woods and disappears. For three long days, friends and neighbors search fruitlessly for her. Then a stranger leads the desperate family to a pine tree beneath which the child lies. Sarah tells her rescuers of the “big black dog” that kept her warm every night—but the bear tracks encircling her tell a different tale. “A treat for ‘pioneer story’ buffs.”—School Library Journal

It''s Shelby''s birthday, but she has to cancel her own party to help take care of her sick grandmother. Then, instead of the shiny new bike she wants, Grandma gives her a dusty old camera. Shelby can''t see the point of the gift, until her grandmother shows her the photographs the camera was used to take. Then, in a horrible accident, the photo albums are lost forever. Can Shelby find a way to recapture the past before the memories fade away?

In 1945 nine-year-old Molly gets a goat named Stanley as a birthday present.

"Henry and Grandpa go in search of the fiddler whose music makes the Northern Lights dance"--Title page verso.

On a starry night a girl and her mother climb the hill above their farm, watching and listening to the natural world around them.

A child, living on a farm in the early 1900s, describes some of the activities that mark the approach of spring.

When Serena''s family moves fifty miles to a wilderness area in Canada, they think that they have left their cat Moses behind, but then they receive a surprise visitor.

Une fillette raconte son passage, sa vie à l''île aux Eglantines, au large de Nantucket: une île battue par la mer et les cavalcades des chevaux sauvages. De très belles illustrations.

Recounts a young girl''s encounter with wild horses on an island off the coast of Nantucket in 1903.

Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother''s serious illness will change the warm familiar life on her family''s Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother''s knowledge to make a very special quilt.