Elizabeth Winthrop

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

A survey of the many kinds of shoes in the world concludes that the best of all are the perfect natural shoes that are your feet.

A rhyming celebration of hats that help create costumes for the Halloween parade.

When Harvey enters his dog, Fred, in the annual dog show Fred is none too pleased, but when the show is over, Fred does not want to leave.

Between 1933 and 1935, a young Italian American girl living in North Adams, Massachusetts, corresponds with President Franklin Roosevelt about the conditions in her town, Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, and her own family's activities.

Lucy and her twin brother Henry take a trip to the park, where they each do their own thing, together.

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

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

One of the finest writers of her generation (Brad Watson), and author of three previously acclaimed novels, Elizabeth H. Winthrop delivers a brave new book that will launch her distinguished career anew. An incisive, meticulously crafted portrait of race, racism, and injustice in the Jim Crow era South that is as intimate and tense as a stage drama, The Mercy SeatThe Mercy Seat is a brutally incisive and tender novel from one of our most acute literary...