Books with author Eleanor Frances Lattimore

DAVID lived on an island on the coast of South Carolina. It was the first day of school and David was in first grade. The island schoolhouse, that had looked so empty and desolate all summer long, with tall grass growing in the schoolyard, was now brimming over with children. The grass was cut, and the big windows were opened wide.David sat at his own desk, in his own chair. The mothers who had brought their children to school had all gone away, David’s mother, too. And now it was Miss Joyce, the teacher, whom David must mind.The story tells of David’s experiences in First Grade – learning how to write his name on the blackboard, making friends, doing the things that a first-grader does. The story also tells of David’s younger brother Timothy, who watches what David does, and can’t wait to join him in school, which he does towards the end of the book.The boys have many adventures. They make Jack-O’Lanterns and dress as ghosts for Halloween, adopt a stray dog they name Spot, catch tree-frogs, toads, and a large land turtle, called a “Cooter,” build a playhouse, catch crabs in a creek, and plant a garden – something that both boys had always wanted. David and Timothy’s father is away in the Army, so the boys’ family consists of their mother and her aunt Beulah, from Philadelphia, whom the boys call Aunt Beulah. Their home is called “Oak Farm,” a rather fancy name, but it is really just an ordinary house. Both boys want it to become a real farm, and little by little it does become more and more like a real farm with the addition of rabbits and plans to raise chickens. Much more happens during the story as the reader will find out.

This second edition of Storm on the Island is a revised and edited version of a classic story about a family living through a hurricane on the Carolina coast.It was pitch black outside. A storm was roaring over the little sea island where Rose Ann and her family lived. The house shook in the wind but it was still standing when at last the storm was over. Fields were flooded and the crops ruined by salt water Worst of all, the causeway to the mainland had been washed away and they were cut off from supplies.Rose Ann minded the baby, Paul caught fish to eat, and they all managed to help another family marooned by high water. But when it was all over, and Paul and Rose Ann realized that they had lived through a hurricane, things seemed different and they somehow felt more grown up.Eleanor Frances Lattimore's delightful drawings illustrate the story.(Text taken from the front flap of the dust jacket on the first edition of this book. )

The author of this story of a little Chinese boy lived in China during her own childhood. From the memories of those years she writes of Little pear, who was five years old and lived in a Chinese village. His eyes were like black apple seeds and his hair was shaved except for one pigtail tied with bright-colored string and standing straight up on top of his head.

Little Pear is a young boy who lives in a small village in China. Although his story takes place long ago, he is much like any little boy today--always on the lookout for excitement and adventure!Little Pear is just looking for fun, but he has a knack for finding trouble without even trying! Join him as he stows away to the fair in a wheelbarrow full of vegetables, nearly flies away on a kite, has a mishap with a firecracker, and is rescued from the river by a houseboat family.