Savannah Skies Books In Order
- Promises of the Heart (2020)
- Promises to Keep (2021)
- A Good Measure (2022)
Novels
- The Gin & Chowder Club (2011)
- Words Get In the Way (2011)
- More Than You Know (2013)
- Under a Summer Sky (2014)
- Nantucket (2015)
- Firefly Summer (2016)
- Summer Dance (2017)
Omnibus
- Making Spirits Bright (2011)
Picture Books
- Rugby and Rosie (1997)
- The Way Home (1999)
- Sugar On Snow (2003)
- The Fo’c’sle (2012)
Novellas
- Christmas in Cape Cod (2018)
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Nan Rossiter Books Overview
Rugby and Rosie
Rugby, the family’s beloved Labrador retriever, finds himself unhappy with the new house guest, Rosie, a puppy brought home to be trained as a guide dog, but they soon become the closest of friends, until she has to leave to do the important work for which she is trained.
Sugar On Snow
Sometime in early march, the cry of ‘Sap’s Rising’ can be heard in rural New England. In this lovely picture book, a father, his two sons, and one dog rise very early to the occasion and set off at dawn to the sugar bush to begin the process. Rossiter paints the action so that it is both personal and factual; we see the entire family involved Mom preparing the meals, Dad steering the big John Deer tractor through the fields, and the two sons, Seth and Ethan, learning how to steer, collecting the buckets, and replacing them on the spouts, and, of course, the loyal hound Chloe probably the only dog so named on any farm in New England trotting along for the ride. Everyone participates in the hard work hauling the buckets full of sap to the holding tank and also in the fun work reducing forty gallons of sap to one gallon of syrup in a big evaporator in the steamy storehouse. And, of course, testing and tasting the syrup. Continually. Lovingly illustrated and infused with the lucid light of early Spring, the book is a real charmer: a testimony to the spirit and traditions of New England and a reminder of the very real values found only on family farms.
The Fo’c’sle
Most adults know, and many have read, Henry Beston’s beloved account of the year he spent in a shack high on a dune overlooking the thundering surf of the Atlantic. Here, on the outer forearm of Cape Cod, looking uninterrupted due east to Portugal, he made a life in a 16 x 20′ shack, simply furnished with a kitchen, a bed, a chest of drawers, a writing table, and a few chairs. He lived there, alone, through the changing seasons, the migration of birds, the howling of the winter storms, the occasional visits of surfmen from nearby Nauset Station, and the turning of the stars in the night sky. During the days, he would wander along the beach, take notes, and think. At dusk he would come home to write by lantern light. The result was his immortal record of that year on the Nauset dunes, The Outermost House. The house was known as ‘The Fo’c’sle.’Now we have a record of that year for younger readers, brilliantly retold and illustrated by Nan Parson Rossiter. Her artwork glows with the same inner light and simplicity that animated Beston’s prose and amplified the natural world. And although his memorable prose is incorporated throughout the book, it is Rossiter’s skill, as both an artist and an interpreter, that makes him, his year, and the little shack he so loved come convincingly, and poignantly, to life.
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