New Releases by Elizabeth Coatsworth

A defiant Yankee girl sails into romance and adventure on the high seas and in the Orient.

Ronnie kidnapped in Africa in retaliation for the death of a chief''s son, escapes into a remarkable journey with the great herd of shy swift antelopes.

As her mistress becomes poorer, a little Mexican girl seeking a way to help takes their last valuable possession to pray before the statue of Saint Francis.

An anthology with many beautiful American Indian poems as well as exciting stories.

David Little doesn''t like bringing his children to an island off the coast of Maine to live, but he has no choice. After many adventures and scares, the family makes the island into a home.

Poems and prose interpretation of UNICEF greeting cards.

A young rock rabbit encounters his first weasel and learns the old trick that these small animals have always used to fight weasels.

The story of a little cat who came to the home of a poor Japanese artist and brought him good fortune.

Because of the strange event in the white room, Laura realizes that life at High Farm can be restored to normal.

This story of a lost little boy found by the Indians is the first adventure recorded of a white child in England.

A boy on a vacation out West with his parents thinks he sees a camel at a nearby water hole.

Cherry Ann and her family have fled China to make San Francisco their home, but not without work and problems.

Story about a Maine farmer who loses all his desire to live.

John Singleton Copley''s artistic talent was discovered during the Knowles riot in the early days of Boston. Grades 3-5.

A sober fifteen-year-old French youth joins an unlikely party of voyageurs bound for the Mississippi boundary of Illinois, to search for a new home for his family and to prove himself to his father.

A fantasy about a young Maine farmer who marries one of the neighbor girls and almost lives to regret it.

A boy who lived on the land, but loved the sea, and a girl who lived on the sea, but longed for the shore, trade places in 1882.

In 1664 a little girl of New Amsterdam played an important part in the day the English flag was raised over the Dutch settlement.

A book of children''s songs and poems.

Maine, where farming and sea-fearing meet, has its own way of looking at the world.

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.