Books by Elizabeth Winthrop

A little girl tries to cheer up her sad mother.

Michael's parents are divorced. Michael lives in Arizona with his mom. His dad lives in Delaware, seven states away as the crow flies. Sometimes when Michael's with his mother, he misses his dad, and when he's with his father, he misses his mom. Michael is sick of missing people. When Michael's dad comes to visit, the two of them stay in a motel and eat out in restaurants. Michael takes his father to school where they read books and make music together. And Michael learns things about his dad that he never knew before. Expressive illustrations accompany a sensitively written story about a young boy who comes to realize that distance does not diminish the special bond between father and son.

Daddy, Mamma, and sister Molly grow so tired while doing everything in their power to get baby Julia to go to bed that they soon fall asleep in a heap in front of her.

Twelve-year-old William uses the magic token to return, through the toy castle in his attic, to the medieval land of Sir Simon, now menaced by a skeleton ship bearing ravenous rats.

Bear is miserable when his regular babysitter, Nora, has to go to the store and he cannot, and he refuses to do anything with Mrs. Duck until he realizes how boring this can be.

Bear is in for a big surprise when he meets Roly-Poly, the new baby sister that Nora picks up at Grandma's house.

Cheer Bear and Funshine Bear help Jenny to overcome her fears when she goes to the hospital to have her tonsils removed.

Belinda welcomes a hurricane as her excuse for staying on the island, solving the mystery of a secret jeweler, and finding a birthday present for Granny May.

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

Despite the fact that his owner has been appointed the parade chairman, Fred the dog wants nothing to do with being in, on, or around the floats until he realizes that Harvey really needs his help and soon, Fred is the center attraction for all to see!

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

A gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight, introduces William to an adventure involving magic and a personal quest.

An illustrated retelling of the birth of Jesus.

Maggie is an angel in the Christmas pageant at church.

Even though everyone tells him that pigs can't dance, Dumpy La Rue decides to follow the rhythm in his head by joyously dancing to his heart's content, and soon all the barnyard animals join in, in this rollicking, rhyming tale.

Grieving for her dead mother, a poor girl finds all her dreams fulfilled when, on Christmas Eve, she hangs above her hearth a stocking she has knitted.

Emma Bortoletti, the twelve-year-old daughter of Italian immigrants, begins to correspond with President Roosevelt during the Great Depression, voicing her concern that his unique new programs will make the economy even worse, in a riveting historical account filled with photographs, maps, and timelines.

Emma Bortoletti, the twelve-year-old daughter of Italian immigrants, begins to correspond with President Roosevelt during the Great Depression, voicing her concern about his unique new programs and the country's troubled economy, in a riveting historical account filled with photographs, maps, and timelines. Read by George Guidall, George Wilson, and Bonnie Kellly-Young.

Grover is apprehensive about spending his first night away from home, at Betty Lou's house, but his fears dissolve under the gracious hospitality of Betty Lou and her mother.

In order to hatch her fifth duckling, Mother Duck must sit on a basket of Easter eggs, because Eliza has decorated the remaining egg for Easter.

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

In this compelling, evocative novel set on a small island off the New England coast, Elizabeth Winthrop subtly examines our notions of home. For Maggie Hammond, home means her beloved godmother, so when Nan dies, the Victorian house she inhabited becomes merely a possession for Maggie to shed. Bur when she meets Sam, the island naturalist, and a dead body rolls up on her beach, she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into the complex world of the islands winter community. For Anna Craven, married to an abusive bully, home is fraught with danger and shrouded in secrets. As Anna grows closer to Dennis Lacey, the newly arrived island doctor, gossip flies and the domestic problems long hidden behind closed doors erupt into violence. The tightly knit group of year-rounders are forced to examine the erosive undertow of secrecy that threatens to destroy the island community they call home. A beautifully observed novel in the tradition of Anne Tyler and Alice Hoffman, Island Justice sets Maggie's struggle to trust the pulls of her heart against the backdrop of a community intent on pursuing its own unique brand of justice.

Kiyo's mother's greatest sorrow is that blindness prevents her from seeing her daughter, so Kiyo takes her to a magical underground kingdom ruled by mice where there is no sadness or sickness.

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

During one special summer of surprising changes, thirteen-year-old Jenny experiences an unexpectedly close relationship with her older brother Charley.

A young peasant, with the help of his faithful and magical humpbacked horse, captures magical beasts, marries the beautiful Tsarevna and becomes the Tsar of Russia.

Lizzie learns a valuable lesson about friendship when she discovers that, sometimes, best friends are there all along, and it is not necessary to go looking for them.

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

Maggie must use her wits and her courage to discover why a girl monster enters Maggie's bedroom every night.

Miranda has always been limited by her asthma, but when she meets a jogger her own age who has a great attitude, Miranda decides to train for a six-mile race.

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

Describes the characteristics of each planet, introduces the idea of gravity, and explains how we have learned about the solar system.

Otto ridicules his sister for eating so much and having a pot belly, but the time comes when he appreciates her foraging abilities and fearlessness.

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

Rhyming verses about different kinds of shoes.

Here is rhyming verse about different kinds of shoes.

Two young sledders bundle into their winter clothes and go down a snowy hill in a wild, whirling ride.

After her friend tells her kissing is for babies, Emmy Lou tries to make do with a pat on the shoulder.

Nobody hears her when Daisy, a middle child, tells her family she is invited to spend the night at her friend's house, in a humorous story that captures the frustration of a middle child trying to be heard over the noise of a well-meaning family.

The Bible's nativity story has been retold in simple, beautiful text with soft, sensitive illustrations.

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

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

A boy worries that his friends will think that he is not tough if they discover that he likes to play with a dollhouse.

A retelling of the old Russian fairy tale in which beautiful Vasilissa uses the help of her doll to escape from the clutches of the witch Baba Yaga.

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

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.