Elizabeth Hathorn, Author, Julie Vivas, Illustrator Kane/Miller Book Publishers $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-916291-20-4
Pluck wins the day in this tale from Australia. Kieran watches Saxon, the paper boy, clamber expertly along the sides of the tram, making change and offering papers to customers speedily, before the tram moves on to the next stop. When he turns nine,
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Elizabeth Hathorn, Author, Libby Hathorn, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-35034-1
When her mother dies, Lara Ritchie must live with a father she barely remembers and his new family in the Australian outback. Coping with the death of a loved one is fairly common in YA fiction, but here Hathorn's commanding prose breathes new life...
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Elizabeth Hathorn, Author, Libby Hathorn, Author Simon & Schuster $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-81090-9
Words and artwork play off of one another like musical riffs in this story of one family who transforms fabric scraps into art and whose bonds of love are stronger than the chains of slavery. Readers may well suspect that Hathorn (Grandma's Shoes)...
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Elizabeth Hathorn, Author, Libby Hathorn, Author, Peter Gouldthorpe, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-71541-3
A prose poem with a riddle at its core makes up this picture book about an essential of life. What is the ``wonder thing'' that reappears on each page? Evocative phrases and half-sentences lead the reader from picture to picture in a round-the-world
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Elizabeth Hathorn, Author, Libby Hathorn, Author, Sharon Thompson, Illustrator Scholastic $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-42442-4
Freya's friend, Miriam, has a grand surprise to tell about during class News Time--a ``Green-two-sleeper-
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Elizabeth Hathorn, Author, Libby Hathorn, Author, Gregory Rogers, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-517-59909-9
A boy named Shane is heading home through the city one night when he meets a stray kitten in an alley. Tucking it inside his jacket, Shane maneuvers past a variety of dangers-bullies, traffic, a snarling dog-until they at last reach his home, itself
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