New Releases by Ruth SAWYER

Christmas is a magical time when we all remember the wonder of the world in the imagination of the child. Revisit timeless favorites in Classic Christmas Stories for Children. Short stories from Hans Christian Andersen, Margery Williams Blanco, Susan Coolidge, Francois Copper, W.H. Corning, Charles Dickens, Ruth Sawyer Durand, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Ruth Lamb, F.E. Mann, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Clement C. Moore, Beatrix Potter, Katherine Pyle

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This book had some really nice Christmas stories from the time of King James of England and a story placed near Trenton New Jersey in 1776, during the American Revolution. This is a wonderful book to see Christmas through the ages. A great collection of 35 Christmas stories: - Christmas At Fezziwig''s Warehouse - The Fir-Tree - The Christmas Masquerade - The Shepherds And The Angels - The Telltale Tile - Little Girl''s Christmas - A Christmas Matinee - Toinette And The Elves - The Voyage Of The Wee Red Cap - A Story Of The Christ-Child - Jimmy Scarecrow''s Christmas - Why The Chimes Rang - The Birds'' Christmas - The Little Sister''s Vacation - Little Wolff''s Wooden Shoes - Christmas In The Alley - A Christmas Star - The Queerest Christmas - Old Father Christmas - A Christmas Carol - How Christmas Came To The Santa Maria Flats - The Legend Of Babouscka - Christmas In The Barn - The Philanthropist''s Christmas - The First Christmas-Tree - The First New England Christmas - The Cratchits'' Christmas Dinner - Christmas In Seventeen Seventy-Six - Christmas Under The Snow - Mr. Bluff''s Experiences Of Holidays - Master Sandy''s Snapdragon - A Christmas Fairy - The Greatest Of These - Little Gretchen And The Wooden Shoe - Christmas On Big Rattle

Twenty short stories selected for their literary quality and their spiritual integrity.

This Way to Christmas is a tale about a young boy David whose parents go on a trip and leave him in the care of an Irish couple, Joanna and Barney. In each chapter David listens to a new Christmas story or folk tale, learning more and more about the magic of Christmas, and its tradition and customs.

Ruth Sawyer (1880 - 1970) was an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She may be best known as the author of Roller Skates, which won the 1937 Newbery Medal. She received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1965 for her lifetime achievement in children''s literature. Sawyer''s first book was an adult novel, The Primrose Ring. It appeared in 1915 and was made into a silent film in 1917, starring Mae Murray and an uncredited Loretta Young in her film debut as a fairy. The next year Sawyer published her first book for children, This Way to Christmas. The story is about a young boy--based on her son, David--whose parents go on a trip and leave him in the care of an Irish couple, Joanna and Barney.

During WWI, one Christmas, a young boy finds himself stranded in a snowed-in hill community in upstate New York, and finds himself experiencing a Christmas he is not accustomed to. He meets a "locked-out fairy" who introduces him to equally lonely neighbours, all of whom were also spending the winter far from home, and each tells him a personal story of the Christmas season. Some stories the neighbours heard in their native homelands long ago. A final celebration brings all the neighbours of different nationalities together, forging relationships that will outlast the holiday season and sending a message of hope to a war-torn world. Suitable for reading to children aged up to 8 or as a gift to young readers aged 9 and up. 10% of the publisher’s profit is donated to charities. =============== Ruth Sawyer (August 5, 1880 – June 3, 1970) was an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She may be best known as the author of Roller Skates, which won the 1937 Newbery Medal. She also received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (she who wrote Little House on the Prairie) in 1965 for her lifetime achievement in children''s literature. =============== KEYWORDS/TAGS: This Way to Christmas, winter, USA, Snowed in, mountain community, upstate New York, share, stories, story, locked out fairy, home, immigrants, togetherness, adventure, storytelling, Barney, Bethlehem, born, Bridget, bring, children, Chris’mus, Christ-child, Christmas, Claus, clock-maker, clock, creatures, David, Dona, Eve, fairies, fairy, fiddle, roaring fire, flagman, friend, gather, gipsies, gray, great, happen, heart, Hermann, hill, holy, honey, Joab, Johanna, Josefa, King, lad, locked-out, lodge, Manuel, Mary, neighbours, neighbours, Nicholas, Peter, poor, reindeer, saint, Santa, Santy, squirrel, Teig, Uncle, window, world, ruth sawyer,

The Primrose Ring is a novel by Ruth Sawyer, an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. The book was published first in 1915 and illustrated by Fanny Munsell. This was Sawyer''s first published novel. The story tells about the inhabitants of the charity hospital, a particular group of kids from ward C, where only incurable patients dwell. Yet, the hospital workers make a present to little patients by organizing the "miracle trip" to the "fairyland" on May Eve, which is the one day that fairies walk the Earth.

Capture Heart continues the story of Canyon Creek Ranch, Wyoming. In 1906, Dennie Murray arrives home with her teaching degree after a two-year absence. No one is prepared for the dramatic change from tomboy to sophisticated career woman, especially her childhood crush and ranch foreman RJ. Will their friendship mature beyond Dennie''s innocent yearnings, which Matthew''s mischievous flirtations threaten to derail? The bustling town of Cascade is a central hub of business and industry but beyond its boundaries danger still lurks in the wild mountains that surround it. The women of Canyon Creek Ranch are thrown in harm''s way and their men must meet the challenge. Love and life itself could be lost with a bad decision. A hesitant heart. Tracking a monster unprepared. Trusting an old gun.

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Margaret was determined never to relinquish her freewill again. Shedding her somber clothes and stifling marriage, she took her inheritance and opened the first beauty salon in Cascade Wyoming. Max Keatcher was not a man respectable women associated with. A gambling philanderer, Margaret endured him as best man in her sister''s wedding last fall. He went back to Alaska afterward, and she put the disagreeable association behind her. For Max, opening a gambling house in Cascade became his obsession, as did the teasing memory of Margaret. So he sold The Blue Eyed Lady Saloon in Nome, moved to Cascade, and that summer, broke ground on his new venture. The incompatible entrepreneurs were thrown together by circumstances and family. Margaret was unnerved around Max, and despite his confident swagger, Max opened a Pandora''s Box of emotions for himself with his flirtations - and a stolen kiss. As the story unfolds, and the people of Canyon Creek Ranch meet life''s challenges, Margaret encounters a shadow from her past with brave defiance. But the situation takes an unexpected turn, threatening more than her independence. Quick actions and a fast gun could mean the difference between life, and death.

Everyone who believes Easter is about more than bunnies and eggs will be grateful for this new collection of short stories that shed light on the deeper meaning of the season. Selected for their spiritual value and literary quality, these classic tales capture the spirit of Easter in a way that will captivate readers of all ages. Easter Stories includes time-honored favorites from world-famous storytellers such as C.S. Lewis, Leo Tolstoy, Selma Lagerlof, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Goudge, Maxim Gorky, Ruth Sawyer, and Walter Wangerin as well as many you''ve never heard before.

Raylan Covy had it pretty good. He emerged from dangerous careers as a US Marshal and hired gun unscathed and wealthy. Never looking back, his ambitions turned to different challenges. He became a successful respected business owner in the exciting wilds of Alaska during the gold rush. What more could a man expect out of life? Then a voice from his past that had been calling to him for over ten years reaches him in the form of letters written by the only woman he had ever loved. Rachel Vale defied conventional mores of the late 1800s. At twenty she inherited Canyon Creek Ranch in Wyoming from her father and made his dream for its success a reality. Her vibrant beauty and passion for this land of horses drew Raylan in for a romance that was fast and deep as the river that coursed through it. But with his youthful appetite for adventure and fear of losing his freedom, he rode out of her life. The promise to return was never fulfilled. The letters she writes over the ensuing years reveal her anxious watch for his return, the progress and struggles of her ranch, her enduring patience and fidelity. But the most startling revelation is yet to come. The possibility that he has lost out on a thing he didn''t know he had brings him to a crossroads in his life. He must go home to Canyon Creek. Home to Canyon Creek is the first book in The Canyon Creek Ranch Series, followed by Maggie''s Way, Captured Heart and Aurora''s Song.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1917 Edition.

Leerie is a book by Ruth Sawyer, who is best known for her books "The Way of the Storyteller," "Roller Skates," and "The Wee Christmas Cabin of Carn-na-ween." Born in Boston in 1880, Ruth Sawyer was an American writer of children''s books.. She studied folklore and storytelling at Columbia University, where she earned a B.S. in 1904. Ruth Sawyer''s first published work was The Primrose Ring in 1915, of which a movie was made in 1917 (starring Loretta Young). Her best-known book is Roller Skates, which won her the Newbery Medal in 1937. Like Roller Skates, a number of Sawyer''s books are autobiographical accounts of her childhood and reveal an interesting perspective on American life at the end of the 19th century. These include The Year of Jubilo and Daddles, The Story of a Plain Hound-Dog. Sawyer also wrote non-autobiographical novels for children, such as The Enchanted Schoolhouse and The Year of the Christmas Dragon , and a scholarly work, The Way of the Storyteller. She published a number of collections of folktales, such as This Way To Christma s(which featured an illustration by a young Norman Rockwell) and My Spain: A Storyteller''s Year of Collecting (1967). In 1965, Ruth Sawyer was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for her work.

Oona Hegarty, a poor woman, has always longed for her own cabin, and on Christmas Eve, after being trapped in the snow with no shelter, she finds a group of wee people who work to grant her wish.

Looking for a fresh collection of stories to usher in the season of joy and giving? For those grown tired of commercialism, who feel that Santa Claus and red-nosed reindeer do not project the true Christmas spirit, this book may be the answer. Containing little-known classics by old and new masters of the genre, this bestselling anthology includes stories from many lands, interspersed with songs and poems - over half the contents available in English for the first time.

A poor cobbler and his three sons worry about having food for their Christmas feast, until a playful goblin king pays them a visit.

A Newbery Medal Winner! Growing up in a well-to-do family with strict rules and routines can be tough for a ten-year-old girl who only wants to roller skate. But when Lucinda Wyman''s parents go overseas on a trip to Italy and leave her behind in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie in New York City, she suddenly gets all the freedom she wants! Lucinda zips around New York on her roller skates, meeting tons of new friends and having new adventures every day. But Lucinda has no idea what new experiences the city will show her.... Some of which will change her life forever. “A refreshingly lively and genuine story.”—The New York Times

Johnny is leaving the farm because of hard times when his Journey Cake leads him on a merry chase that results in a farm yard full of animals and the family all together again.

As interest in the art of storytelling continues to grow, many books have appeared on the subject but none have matched the scope and charm of The Way of the Storyteller. First published in 1942, this classic work is unique in its blend of literary history, criticism, analysis, personal anecdote, and how-to instructions. Sawyer examines storytelling as a folk art and a still-living art, tracing its evolution from the earliest narrative impulses that developed as stories were written down. With simple suggestions, she instructs the reader in the art of storytelling and freeing the creative imagination by disciplining the mind. Sawyer''s guide also includes an engaging selection of international stories sure to enchant both children and adults. The Way of the Storyteller also is an invaluable resource with a comprehensive reading and story list.

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