Elizabeth Yates
(1905 - 2001)
Elizabeth Yates McGreal was an American author. She is perhaps best known for her 1951 Newbery Medal-winning novel Amos Fortune, Free Man. She also received the Newbery Honor in 1944 for Mountain Born.
Bibliography
Amos Fortune, Free Man (1950)
Brought to Massachusetts as a slave, after forty-five years he was able to buy his freedom, moved to New Hampshire and set up as a tanner.
The Doll Who Came Alive (1942)
Jyd, a young English girl, loves her doll so much that it comes to life and together they go off to the land of the Good People.
Mountain Born (1943)
Peter learns to be a shepherd under the tutelage of Old Benj.
Once in the Year: A Christmas Story (1947)
Peter goes out on Christmas Eve to see the flowering of the forest and hear the farm animals talking in the byre.
A Place for Peter (1952)
Peter’s father trusts him to collect the maple sap and boil it down to maple syrup.
Santa's Footprints and Other Christmas Stories (1948)
An anthology of Christmas short stories for younger readers.
Walter R. Brooks
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The Shining Tree and Other Christmas Stories (1940)
An anthology of Christmas stories.
Hildegarde Hawthorne
Lois Lenski
Mabel L. Robinson
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Story Parade Rainbow Book (1942)
A collection of stories and poems from Story Parade magazine.
Wanda Gág
Ruth Sawyer
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Robert McCloskey
Henry C. Pitz
Nora S. Unwin
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The White Ring (1949)
Old Uter Penscawen finds a little girl cast up by the sea and takes her into his home. As she grows older, she grows smaller.