12/22/08

Book of the Week #52

On That Night by Elizabeth Yates; illustrated by James Barkley (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1969)

This Christmas parable is the tale of a night that brings to pass one of the legends of Christmas Eve: on that night lost things are found again.

New Hampshire author Elizabeth Yates (December 6, 1905 - July 29, 2001) is best known for her Newbery medal winning novel Amos Fortune, Free Man. Yates wrote more than 50 other books during her lifetime, including an autobiographical trilogy.

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