Joan Anderson, Author . Broadway $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7679-0870-2
Anderson's 1999 memoir, A Year by the Sea, described her year-long break from marriage, a time of independent self-discovery as she approached middle age. In this sequel, she continues into the following year, when she and her newly retired...
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Joan Anderson, Author . Broadway $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1474-1
In A Year by the Sea
and An Unfinished Marriage
, Anderson shared her account of taking a break from her marriage and spending a year of solitude at the beach. Now, she introduces the inspiring woman she befriended during that time: Joan Erikson,...
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Joan Anderson, Author . Broadway $23.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2054-4
In her popular A Year by the Sea
, Anderson wrote about a time she chose to live apart from her husband on Cape Cod in order to better understand herself. Anderson has turned her private retreat into a program, Weekend by the Sea Retreats, to help...
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Joan Anderson, Author . Hyperion/Voice $23.95 (205p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0339-6
After the publication of her first book of self-transformation (A Year by the Sea
) in 1999, Anderson writes of being consumed by a pressing schedule and a web of family cares that have derailed her from her original trajectory of self-truth. While...
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Joan Anderson, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-49139-6
""I'm beginning to think that real growing only begins after we've done the adult things we're supposed to do,"" confides Anderson, a journalist and author of children's books (Twins on Toes, etc.). She came to this conclusion after a year living...
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Joan Anderson, Author, Littell, Author, Matthew Cavanaugh, Photographer Dutton Books $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-67511-2
Middle-graders who are more apt to gravitate toward playing fields than libraries are the prime audience for this well-pitched photo-essay. Crisp, conversational text and energetic photos follow 13-year-old Kenny Garibaldi through a grueling yet...
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Joan Anderson, Author, George Ancona, Photographer Scholastic $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-590-48424-4
For a firsthand look at life on a working ranch, cowpoke wanna-bes should belly up to this thoroughly engaging photo-essay. Longtime collaborators Anderson and Ancona (The American Family Farm) spent two weeks with the Eby family in New Mexico,...
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Joan Anderson, Author, Michelle V. Agins, Photographer, Theresa Weatherspoon, Foreword by Dutton Children's Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-46412-9
This winning collaboration between Anderson (Batboy: An Inside Look at Spring Training) and New York Times photographer Agins creates a lucid portrait of Tamika Whitmore, the 6'2"" basketball center who distinguished herself as a rookie during the...
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Joan Anderson, Author, Alexander Farquharson, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $14.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-15-200582-5
This book almost achieves the impossible: combining a story of romance with the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Wealthy Jared Mifflin and Hetty Morris are in love. But after Jared is assigned to be James Madison's assistant, he has hardly any...
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Joan Anderson, Author, George Ancona, Illustrator William Morrow & Company $13 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-06680-2
Anderson and Ancona's living history series collaboration continues in a story about the Carpenter family's 1836 journey west, duly recorded by son Joshua. The family packs all their possessions in a Conestoga wagon and heads west along the National
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Joan Anderson, Author, George Ancona, Author, George Ancona, Photographer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $9 (96p) ISBN 978-0-15-201481-0
Ancona's black-and-white photographs record the daily lives of three farm families, who communicate their devotion to their work in the straightforward text. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Arlene Erlbach, Author, Joan Anderson, Author, Helen Flook, Illustrator Walker & Company $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8027-8852-8
The Middle School Survival Guide by Arlene Erlbach, illus. by Helen Flook, offers advice on everyday challenges that 10- to 14-year-olds face in school and at home, from difficult teachers and too much homework to changing friendships, sibling...
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