Winterbound

by Margery Williams Bianco, Kate Seredy (Illustrator)

Overview

Four city-bred children find themselves on their own in an unheated New England farmhouse in this captivating tale by the author of The Velveteen Rabbit. With their father gone on a business trip and their mother assisting a faraway relative, Kay, Garry, Caroline, and Martin must rely on themselves — and each other — to solve the day-to-day challenges of a chilly country winter.
Margery Williams Bianco's Depression-era novel offers young readers an inspiring tale of the value of self-reliance as well as the importance of family ties. The 1937 Newbery Medal–winning Honor Book is enhanced by charming black-and-white illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486492902
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	01/15/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Best known for The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real, English-American author Margery Williams Bianco (1881–1944) wrote several popular children's books. Many of her stories recount the fantastic capacity of animals and inanimate objects to experience human emotions.

Table of Contents

I The House on the Hillside 3

II Listeners Hear No Good 25

III Across the Road 45

IV The Boll Weevil 63

V Ways and Means 85

VI Winterbound 107

VII Garry Finds a Job 125

VIII On the Crooked Esses 153

IX "Z.Y.3." 167

X Company 183

XI Ready for Penny 199

XII Kay's Day 215