Natalie Kinsey-Warnock Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Canada Geese Quilt (1989)
  2. The Night the Bells Rang (1991)
  3. Sweet Memories Still (1997)
  4. As Long As There Are Mountains (1997)
  5. In the Language of Loons (1998)
  6. If Wishes Were Horses (2000)
  7. Uc The Best Of Friends (2002)
  8. A Doctor Like Papa (2002)
  9. Lumber Camp Library (2002)
  10. Gifts from the Sea (2003)
  11. From Dawn Till Dusk (2006)
  12. Year of the Summer (2008)
  13. True Colors (2012)

Picture Books

  1. The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar (1990)
  2. Wilderness Cat (1992)
  3. When Spring Comes (1993)
  4. The Bear That Heard Crying (1993)
  5. On a Starry Night (1994)
  6. The Fiddler of the Northern Lights (1994)
  7. The Summer of Stanley (1997)
  8. When I Remember (1998)
  9. A Farm of Her Own (2001)
  10. A Christmas Like Helen’s (2004)
  11. Nora’s Ark (2005)
  12. Last Catamount (2008)

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Natalie Kinsey-Warnock Books Overview

The Canada Geese Quilt

With Grandma’s support and understanding, Ariel learns to accept the news of a new baby in the family. Together, they plan to make a beautiful quilt as a special gift for the baby. But when Grandma has a stroke, Ariel is lost and afraid. This touching portrait of the warmth and love of family has been a favorite of young readers for ten years. ‘A small gem of a book, a beautifully written, engaging celebration of life, love, self discovery, and the cycles of nature.’ School Library Journal, starred review Awards for The Canada Geese Quilt: An ALA Notable Book An NCSS CBC Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies A Booklist Editors’ Choice Book New York Public Library ‘100 Titles for Reading and Sharing’

The Night the Bells Rang

While the adults talk endlessly about the war overseas, Mason fights his own battles at home with a mean bully named Aden. But then Aden surprises Mason with an unexpected act of kindness. Finally, on the night the bells ring and World War I ends Mason lays an old enemy to rest. Readers will identify with this timeless story about a boy’s coming of age.’This quiet, affecting coming of age story…
realistically evoke’s life in another time and place.’ The Horn BookAwards for The Night the Bells Rang: An American Bookseller ‘Pick of the Lists’ A Child Study Children’s Book Committee Children’s Book of the Year

Sweet Memories Still

It’s Shelby’s birthday, but she has to cancel her own party to help take care of her sick grandmother. Then, instead of the shiny new bike she wants, Grandma gives her a dusty old camera. Shelby can’t see the point of the gift, until her grandmother shows her the photographs the camera was used to take. Then, in a horrible accident, the photo albums are lost forever. Can Shelby find a way to recapture the past before the memories fade away? ‘ A good read aloud and a poignant early chapter book.’ School Library Journal

As Long As There Are Mountains

Thirteen year old Iris won’t give up her family farm in northern Vermont not without a fight. Unlike her brother, Lucien, who can’t wait to get out, Iris feels deeply and happily rooted. Then, tragedy strikes. With a burned down barn and a father who may be permanently injured, Iris’s world topples. If Lucien takes over the farm, it will ruin his dreams of college and being a writer. But if Lucien leaves, Iris’s parents will have to sell the property. Will Iris be forced to give up everything she loves?

Awards:

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Master List
An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists

In the Language of Loons

t was summer, 1969, and for all his life, Arlis would remember it because of the loons Spending the summer with his grandparents opened new worlds for Arlis. He was glad to be away from his father, who was always too busy to spend time with him anyway. That wasn’t the case with Grandpa. Grandpa taught him about the stars, about birds, and most especially about having faith in himself and the need to take responsibility for your actions. It was the summer he started to run, and realized he could be good at something if he tried hard enough. When school started that fall, even though some sad changes came as well, he was a new Arlis, one who was able to stand on his own.

If Wishes Were Horses

All she wants is a horse. But at the height of the Great Depression, Lily knows her dream isn’t possible. Constantly arguing with her older sister, Emily, doesn’t make it any easier. In Lily’s eyes, Emily is everyone’s favorite. After all, Emily is allowed to have a cat. Only Great aunt Nell, visiting from India, understands Lily’s problems and takes her dreams seriously. But when disaster strikes the family, and nothing is certain, Lily must face the fact that not even Aunt Nell can smooth away her troubles. ‘An engaging coming of age story…
tragic, wonderful, and sometimes humorous.’ School Library Journal

A Doctor Like Papa

When the first star twinkles in the evening sky, Margaret squeezes her eyes shut and makes three wishes one, for a sister; two, for a dog; and three, the most important of all, that Mama will let her study medicine. But Margaret knows it will take more than wishing on stars to change her mother’s mind. ‘Doctoring’s no kind of life for a woman,’ Mama says. ‘It’s too hard and dangerous.’ Margaret’s papa is the only doctor in the whole Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, and he works long, hard hours and faces countless perils every day. Still, Margaret holds tight to her dream…
until a terrible virus breaks out, threatening Margaret’s dream, her community, and, worst of all, her family. Suddenly it’s up to her to make the right choice.

Lumber Camp Library

To Ruby, there is nobody in the entire world more wonderful than her pa her log riding lumberjack pa, who calls her ‘my little jewel’ and comes home smelling of spruce and fir. And there’s nothing Ruby would rather do than follow in her father’s large bootprints, working in the lumber camp. But a lumber camp is no place for an eight year old girl. She belongs in school, learning how to read and write. It is there that she discovers another passion for the world that opens up to her in books. Then, when circumstances suddenly change, Ruby fears she has lost the two things she loves most. Through her struggle, she discovers in herself the courage, the kindness, and the talent she so admires in her father.

Gifts from the Sea

Quila MacFarlane is devastated by the death of her mother, especially now that it’s just her and her father on Devils Rock where her father is the lighthouse keeper. They can t leave and almost no one ever comes to visit them. But the morning after a storm, something floats ashore that changes their lives forever: Two small mattresses strapped together, and inside, a baby! They name her Cecelia, which means a gift from the sea, and call her Celia. She makes them a family again and helps heal the hurt left by Quila s mother s passing. Two years later, though, another stranger arrives, one who changes everything all over again: A woman named Margaret, come looking for the final resting place of her sister, whose ship had gone down in a storm two years before. Her sister s baby had never been found, either, she explains, and now she has no family of her own. Could this be Celia s aunt? Will Quila have to give up Celia so Margaret can have her own family back? This is a gripping tale full of love, loss, and healing. Natalie Kinsey Warnock is the author of many wonderful books for young readers. From the Hardcover Library Binding edition.

From Dawn Till Dusk

Chopping wood in the fall, hauling sap buckets in the spring, and weeding, howing, and weeding again in the summer: That is life on a farm in the north. It is also seven months of snow; sloppy, impossible mud season; and hot days of haying. Who would miss growing up in such a place?A love of life and a love of place shines through in Natalie Kinsey Warnock’s richly imagined prose. Illustrated with Mary Azarian s beautiful woodcuts, this book reveals how chores lead straight to the best kind of fun: night swimming in the pond, skiing off the barn roof, and finding new gray kittens in the haymow with their eyes still closed. And at story s end, readers from cities, towns, and the country will ask themselves, What would we miss most about our home?

The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar

‘In the summer of 1903, I picked daisies in the fields by the sea and saw the wild horses for the first time. There were ten of them brown and sorrel and dappled gray. They flew across the sand like wind blown seeds.’ A warm, touching story of a young girl and her dreams, illustrated beautifully by Ted Rand.

When Spring Comes

A young girl dreams of the arrival of spring, with the blossoming apple trees and the music of tree frogs that accompany warm weather, but she soon learns to also appreciate the magic of winter.

The Bear That Heard Crying

A fictionalized retelling of the true story of three year old Sarah Whitcher, who, in 1783, became lost in the woods of New Hampshire and was protected by a bear until her rescue four days later.

The Fiddler of the Northern Lights

Henry Pepin, a boy who lives along the wild St. Maurice River, has heard all of his grandfather’s stories about the fiddler who makes the Northern Lights dance, and he sets out in search of the fiddler.

The Summer of Stanley

When her grandfather gives her a goat named Stanley for her ninth birthday in 1945, Molly is disappointed, especially when Stanley keeps getting into trouble by climbing on the car, eating Mama’s Victory Garden, and doing other mischievous acts.’

When I Remember

Ten year old Emma loves the summer she spends with her great aunt and great uncle and her cousins on their farm so much that she moves there when she has children of her own.

A Farm of Her Own

When Emma was ten, she went to spend the summer with Aunt Ada and Uncle Will at Sunnyside Farm, opening a whole new world to her. She learned how to milk a cow, gather eggs, and ride a horse. She learned to love the sounds of cowbells and bullfrogs and rain on the roof and treasured the smells of wild roses, horses, and homemade bread. And she learned to enjoy her cousins and her aunt and uncle as if she had known them all her life. In this charming reminiscence of an earlier, simpler time, Emma finds the kind of life she will always want and which she will eventually get on A Farm of Her Own. Scintillating watercolors, washed with the changing hues of farm life, capture the beauty and joy of Emma’s experience.

A Christmas Like Helen’s

At Helen’s home, there are no telephones or electric lights. Cars have not yet been invented, so she and her sister and brothers must walk a mile to school, even in freezing weather. Without refrigeration, they must harvest ice from the pond. But at night she and her family gather around the woodstove to hear stories of castles and princes in hiding. They take horse drawn sleigh rides, snug under buffalo robes and wool blankets; skate in the moonlight; and on Christmas morning have real maple syrup for breakfast. With absorbing details of country life and elegant, hand colored woodcuts, this book captures the strength of family, the magic of Christmas, and the love of place all year long.

Nora’s Ark

A flood is coming! When the water climbs to the rooftops, where will everybody go? To Grandma’s house, of course, high up on a hill. Before long, the house is full ofpeople, chickens, ducks, pigs, horses, cats, and even a cow. There’s only one person missing Grandpa! This heartwarming story by Natalie Kinsey Warnock is based on a real life event: the Vermont Flood of 1927. Watercolors by Caldecott Medal winning artist Emily Arnold McCully capture both the sweeping drama of the flood and the comfort of a cozy kitchen filled with friends, neighbors, and good cheer.

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