Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, Author , read by Anna Fields. Blackstone Audio $23.95 (, unabridged, three cassettes, 4 hrs., $23.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7861-2193-9
This fun grab bag of history, trivia and useful information covers just about every aspect of the beachgoing experience. It starts off slowly, giving the history of Greek and Roman bathhouses. During the Dark Ages, water was viewed with suspicion,...
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Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, Author Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company $15 (143p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5150-5
If readers can overlook one or two leaps in narrative logic and some patches of formulaic prose, they could easily become engrossed in this suspense story set in 1944 Holland. At 13, Pieter has seen the Germans arrest his father and even confiscate...
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Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, Author Yearling Books $3.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-41495-7
Despite his mother's remarriage and a move, Scott determines to be champion sled-dog racer in this novel that inspired the movie Kayla. ""The story builds to a convincing three-tissue ending,"" said PW. Ages 9-12. (Feb.)
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Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, Author Henry Holt & Company $18.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6235-9
Beach-goers will have a new appreciation for the surfside after reading Let's Go to the Beach: A History of Sun and Fun by the Sea by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk. From historical tidbits (""During the Roman conquest of Great Britain, swimming was...
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Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, Author, Bill Farnsworth, Illustrator Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5234-2
The Wright Brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., on December 17, 1903, takes center stage in One Fine Day: A Radio Play by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, illus. by Bill Farnsworth. The colloquial script makes it accessible for students to...
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Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, Author, Bill Farnsworth, Illustrator Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5191-8
The creators of My Name Is York here shape an amiable portrait of a young Abraham Lincoln as an aspiring scholar and orator: ""Reading took last place in Abraham's day, but it was always first place in his heart."" Farnsworth bathes the young...
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Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, illus. by Anna Rich. Peachtree, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56145-580-5
An enslaved nine-year-old boy narrates this tense fictional story about the Underground Railroad. His father, the plantation’s blacksmith, uses his hammer and anvil as a signal: “Tonight he is sending word to the folks in the woods, who are waiting...
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