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Rich Rollo
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Mat Blankenship
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Joseph F. Dumond
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Jerry Eastbourne
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Terri Pierce
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Timothy Tabor
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John Wesley Anderson, Jr.
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Gary D. Cluck
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Robert S. Weil
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Christie Castorino
Titles by: Elizabeth McKey Hulbert
Elizabeth McKey Hulbert is an author and artist who lives on Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Her books for children include Out and In (Scholastic); I Love to Ski, The Memory Quilt, Milkweed and Winkles – A Wild Child’s Cookbook (all Windswept House); and A Fisherman’s Daughter (Maine Osteopathic Educational Foundation). Her articles, on subjects ranging from rosa rugosas to Russia, from coon cats to carving, have appeared in Down East, Yankee, Catskills Quarterly, Chip Chats, WoodenBoat and New Hampshire Profiles, and in newspapers in Maine, Delaware and New York. Her watercolors have been exhibited in Cooperstown, NY, the Phillips, DC staff show, and at events in Maine, Delaware and Pennsylvania. For many years she worked in the editorial, advertising, and museum fields. She enjoys books, writing, art, her children and grandchildren, hiking, cooking, travel and gardens. “I’ve written and drawn and painted as long as I can remember, and I don’t remember learning to read – it was just one of the wonderful, necessary and fun things I did,” she says. “My professor grandfather started me writing (poetry), at an early age and my mother’s friend Elizabeth Gray Vining (noted Quaker prize-winning author), showed me by fond example during her frequent visits to our family that writing for children was a satisfying and delightful occupation. It is.”
By Elizabeth McKey Hulbert
Hannah finds returning to the Maine island of her mother’s ancestors even harder to deal with than being the middle one in the family… being a girl… trying to be a good artist. Brother Hossley is Mom’s “man of the house” and football buddy with Hannah’s friend Duane; precious little Sally is everyone’s pet. But though Hannah thinks she knows what she wants to be, she doesn’t know who she is. No one understands until Amos appears. He comes to the island for mysterious and terrible reasons of his own, but the only one he talks about is his determination to continue carving the local birds; this special skill had been inspired, he says, by a famous Down East carver he had known years ago. In spite of almost everyone’s disapproval, Amos becomes Hannah’s art mentor, father figure and good friend, and life moves seemingly smoothly until a nearly tragic event rips open the mysteries of the past and suggests a new future. An added cause of stress for the islanders is the stealing of Duane’s dad’s lobster catch from their underwater holding tank – a serious crime in the fishermen’s world. To get hints of Hannah’s progress, the reader can consider the significance of the yellow chickadee, the touch-football scrimmage at Redmond’s, and the live lobster on the woodland path.The Maine setting is vivid and authentic.This is a good read for a spectrum of ages; teen and adult alike will delight in the glimpse of the bird-carving world and will find reading between the lines suggests many questions to ponder on life and love in today’s confusing times.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Elizabeth McKey Hulbert
Hannah finds returning to the Maine island of her mother’s ancestors even harder to deal with than being the middle one in the family… being a girl… trying to be a good artist. Brother Hossley is Mom’s “man of the house” and football buddy with Hannah’s friend Duane; precious little Sally is everyone’s pet. But though Hannah thinks she knows what she wants to be, she doesn’t know who she is. No one understands until Amos appears. He comes to the island for mysterious and terrible reasons of his own, but the only one he talks about is his determination to continue carving the local birds; this special skill had been inspired, he says, by a famous Down East carver he had known years ago. In spite of almost everyone’s disapproval, Amos becomes Hannah’s art mentor, father figure and good friend, and life moves seemingly smoothly until a nearly tragic event rips open the mysteries of the past and suggests a new future. An added cause of stress for the islanders is the stealing of Duane’s dad’s lobster catch from their underwater holding tank – a serious crime in the fishermen’s world. To get hints of Hannah’s progress, the reader can consider the significance of the yellow chickadee, the touch-football scrimmage at Redmond’s, and the live lobster on the woodland path.The Maine setting is vivid and authentic.This is a good read for a spectrum of ages; teen and adult alike will delight in the glimpse of the bird-carving world and will find reading between the lines suggests many questions to ponder on life and love in today’s confusing times.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Elizabeth McKey Hulbert
A fictionalized memoir, this crisply written account brings colorfully alive the early 1930s – when teenage feelings were the same as today’s, but the time was very different. Young Mardi is determined to make this summer in a quiet New Hampshire mountain intervale memorable for her visiting friends and cousins, and to spice it with successful fishing in the local brooks.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Elizabeth McKey Hulbert
A fictionalized memoir, this crisply written account brings colorfully alive the early 1930s – when teenage feelings were the same as today’s, but the time was very different. Young Mardi is determined to make this summer in a quiet New Hampshire mountain intervale memorable for her visiting friends and cousins, and to spice it with successful fishing in the local brooks.
FORMAT: Softcover
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