Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth was born on April 30, 1893, in Lancaster, Ohio. She was an American author celebrated for her works in children's literature and poetry, known for her poetic style and vivid storytelling. Coatsworth’s literary career spanned several decades, and she earned numerous awards throughout her life.
Personal Name: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Birth: 31 May 1893
Death: 31 August 1986
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Books
(30 Books)
A little cat comes to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brings him good fortune.
Grades 4-6
Teachers edition
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A fourteenth century Norwegian expedition to find the Greenland colony that has forsaken its home and religion travels as far as the New World, where they find their countrymen have joined the Mandan Indians.
Johnny forms a friendship with the new boy at school but is puzzled by his strangeness.
This is a unique celebration of that most beautiful and self-possessed of creatures--the cat. More than 50 poems are included, reflecting every feline mood: the comic, the aristocratic, the lazy, the cunning, the fierce, the inscrutable.
Lovers of cats and lovers of poetry will be delighted by the wide-ranging nature of the collection by poets such as T.S. Elliot, Ted Hughes, W.B. Yeats, William Wordsworth, Edward Lear and many others.
One of the most attractive features of the book is the choice of pictures. A stunning selection of drawings and paintings by such artists and illustrators as Renoir, Manet, Picasso, Hogarth, Cruikshank and Lear add to the charm of the verse, making this a book to be treasured by cat lovers everywhere.
Ten short stories by a variety of authors about young practitioners of witchcraft.
The April Witch - short story by Ray Bradbury
Witch Girl - short story by Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Wonderful Day - novelette by Robert Arthur
With Four Lean Hounds - novelette by Pat Murphy
Mistress Sary - short story by William Tenn
Teragram - short story by Evelyn E. Smith
Stevie and the Dark - short story by Zenna Henderson
A Message from Charity - short story by William M. Lee
The Entrance Exam - short story by Mary Carey
The Boy Who Drew Cats - short story by Lafcadio Hearn
A book of anecdotes, impressions and descriptions of Maine country life in the middle of the twentieth century, gathered and told by the owner of a Maine farm. Included are stories of sea captains, hermits and tramps about everyday life, special days, folklore and humor.
In 1817, Margaret Winslow made a momentous decision to say in Maine and alone. All her settler neighbors were enthusiastically preparing to move out to Ohio's rich Western Reserve. This is the story of Margaret's tenacity and love of her own land.
Father Ambrosius, the orphan boy Michael, the outcast Harold Fairhair, and the dog Seumas wander throughout Ireland leaving everyone they meet touched by their joy and wisdom.
A young Navajo boy helps a Basque sheepherder take the ranch's sheep to summer pasture, and is able to save the sheep when a sudden storm appears.
The great green forest has come closer and closer to Mark's family over four generations and now Mark learns a secret about some of its creatures.
A little girl from Massachusetts moves to Maine in a little house on runners pulled by twelve strong oxen in the early 19th century.
Raised by a harsh grandmother and an indifferent father, Marra comes to understand her world with the help of her seal mother.
