Elizabeth Partridge, Author . Viking $21.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-03535-9
The author of Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
shapes a lucid, affecting portrait of another indisputably restless spirit, the prolific songwriter and impassioned folksinger Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912–1967). Drawing...
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Elizabeth Partridge, Author . Viking $24.99 (232p) ISBN 978-0-670-05954-6
As she did for Woody Guthrie in This Land Was Made for You and Me
, Partridge here presents a captivating portrait of a legendary musician, tracing Lennon's life from his birth in 1940 during a German air raid on Liverpool to his murder in...
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Elizabeth Partridge, Author . Viking $19.99 (72p) ISBN 978-0-670-01189-6
Partridge (This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
) tells the unsettling but uplifting story of the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965, using the voices of men and women who participated as children and teenagers....
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Elizabeth Partridge, Author Dutton Books $14.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-525-45403-8
While digging herbs on Red Owl Mountain, Clara Raglan and her little sister Bessie strike up a conversation with Old Sugar, the hoodoo man. Their mother has warned them that Old Sugar puts hexes on people, but the girls timidly respond to the old...
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Elizabeth Partridge, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-038348-5
""This exceptional first novel is as clear and sharp as a heady whiff of sage,"" said PW in a starred review of this drama about an African American girl and an old herbal healer. Ages 8-12. (June)
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Elizabeth Partridge, Bloomsbury, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59990-183-1
This gripping yet tender coming-of-age story reveals multiple nuanced perspectives of the Vietnam War and its aftermath in the summer of 1980. A backfiring school bus triggers a series of flashbacks for sixth-grader Tracy. Partridge (Marching for...
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Elizabeth Partridge. Chronicle, $50 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4521-2216-8
Published in tandem with an episode of the PBS American Masters series, this handsome monograph is the only career-spanning collection of Lange’s work currently in print. Accompanied by an informative biographical essay by the pioneering...
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Elizabeth Partridge. Viking, $22.99 (214p) ISBN 978-0-670-78506-3
Skillfully interweaving original interviews and black-and-white photos with narrative, Partridge (Marching for Freedom) evokes the political controversy and intense emotions triggered by the Vietnam War. Her spare descriptions of the physical...
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Elizabeth Partridge, Author, Martha Weston, Illustrator Golden Books $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-307-10232-4
A touch of nostalgia infuses this cheerful story, just right for tucking into an Easter basket. The rose-strewn cottage, the porcine hero reminiscent of Porky Pig, the exaggerated physical action and straightforward story--all resemble cartoon...
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Elizabeth Partridge, Author, Aki Sogabe, Illustrator , illus. by Aki Sogabe. Putnam $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-47078-6
In this team's (Oranges on Golden Mountain
) second outing, paper cutouts with bold outlines accompany an eerie Japanese folktale. Partridge tells the story of how, at each full moon, the people who live near Japan's Lake Biwa gather to hear
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Elizabeth Partridge, Author, Lauren Castillo, Illustrator , illus. by Lauren Castillo. Bloomsbury $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59990-024-7
“Mama, me, and Pepper,/ always been this way/ Never been without him,/ even for a day,” says the young narrator in introducing the main characters of this rhyming story. But Pepper, a big tabby cat, is “way too old” and...
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Elizabeth Partridge, Author, Joan Paley, Illustrator , illus. by Joan Paley. Dutton $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-46873-8
In this gloriously illustrated, economically paced volume, autumn arrives in a swirl of orange leaves and a blast of icy wind that ripples the water, and four animals—squirrel, bat, beaver and bear—end their frolicking and begin...
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Elizabeth Partridge, Author, Donna L. Brooks, Editor, Aki Sogabe, Illustrator Dutton Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-46453-2
Exquisitely complemented by Sogabe's (Aesop's Fox) subtly colored cut-paper illustrations, this unusual tale finds a Chinese boy adjusting to a new life in 19th-century California. Faced with drought and famine, Jo Lee's widowed mother reluctantly...
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Elizabeth Partridge, illus. by Becca Stadtlander. Viking, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-984835-15-4
Partridge tells the story of Frederick Law Olmsted’s (1822–1903) career as an ambitious, visionary park designer, from his unpromising years in school to his success as the designer of Central Park and public parks throughout the U.S. Along the way,
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Elizabeth Partridge, illus. by Lauren Tamaki. Chronicle, $21.99 (132p) ISBN 978-1-452-16510-3
Combining photography, art, and reproduced historical records for a documentarian effect, this thoughtful, immersive nonfiction narrative builds on the varied work of three individuals who photographed people of Japanese heritage imprisoned at...
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Elizabeth Partridge, illus. by Ellen Heck. Chronicle, $19.99 (60p) ISBN 978-1-4521-3514-4
“People say it’s impossible,” begins this sprawling history of the now-iconic Golden Gate Bridge’s construction. Narrated from the perspective of a lighthouse keeper’s children, who watch the building over several years, the accounting reveals how...
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