New Releases by Diane Stanley

"This biography of Queen Elizabeth I does an excellent job of describing the context of her life so that reasons for many of her actions become clear . . . The resulting depth . . . will give the book a wide audience".--Booklist, starred review. Bibliography included. 1990 Notable Children''s Book in the Field of Social Studies.

A biography of the nineteenth-century military genius and Zulu chief.

Captain Whiz-Bang spends the years of his youth as a champion cat, chasing dogs and jumping high fences, then ages gracefully into a purring lap-sitting cat.

A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.

A magic pencil which Mary Ann discovers accidentally brings her more good luck than she can handle.

An ill-fated visit to the city home of the elegant Mrs. Snickers teaches an impressionable country cat a little about herself and friendship.