Elizabeth Partridge Books In Order

Novels

  1. Clara and the Hoodoo Man (1996)
  2. Dogtag Summer (2011)

Picture Books

  1. Pig’s Eggs (2000)
  2. Oranges On Golden Mountain (2001)
  3. Moon Glowing (2002)
  4. Whistling (2003)
  5. Kogi’s Mysterious Journey (2003)
  6. Big Cat Pepper (2009)

Chapter Books

  1. Annie and Bo and the Big Surprise (2002)

Non fiction

  1. Restless Spirit (1998)
  2. Children of the Changing World (1998)
  3. This Land Was Made for You and Me (2002)
  4. Quizzical Eye (2002)
  5. John Lennon (2005)
  6. Marching For Freedom (2009)
  7. John F. Kennedy (2010)
  8. Guys Read (2014)

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Elizabeth Partridge Books Overview

Dogtag Summer

Twelve-year-old Tracy-or Tuyet-has always felt different. The villagers in Vietnam called her con-lai, or ‘half-breed,’ because her father was an American GI. And she doesn’t fit in with her adoptive family in California, either. But when Tracy and a friend discover a soldier’s dogtag hidden among her father’s things, it sets her past and her present on a collision course. Where should her broken heart come to rest? In a time and place she remembers only in her dreams? Or among the people she now calls family? Partridge’s sensitive portrayal of a girl and her family grappling with the complicated legacy of war is as timely today as the events were decades ago.

Oranges On Golden Mountain

‘You are never alone. Your dream spirit, your Hun, will make sure of that,’ Jo Lee’s mother tells him when she sends him across the ocean to fish with Fourth Uncle on Golden Mountain California. Adjusting to the strange new land is not easy, but the orange branches he has brought from home and his Hun’s nighttime travels remind Jo Lee of his roots and nourish his growth. In this finely wrought story of one Chinese boy’s transition to a new life in late nineteenth century California, Elizabeth Partridge captures the determination, family strength, and courage needed by all immigrants. Aki Sogabe’s cut paper illustrations, as rich in character and historical detail as the text, soar with drama, imagination, and like Jo Lee’s Hun a deep desire to connect.

Moon Glowing

The autumn leaves are twirling down. The squirrel is stashing, the bat swooping, the beaver building, and the big bear is feasting well. In this simple, rhythmic story, four quite different furry animals prepare resting places for the coming winter. Spare prose by award winning author Elizabeth Partridge marks the progress of each animal and the final, quiet beauty of the forest’s first snowfall. Joan Paley’s colorful, textured collage art, playful yet tender, captures the wonder of the unfolding autumn season and the arrival of the silent winter. This warmly stylized vision of a changing forest and its four snug tenants is sure to become a favorite of young children.

Whistling

‘Jake,’ Daddy whispers. ‘It’s almost time.’ As the sky begins to lighten, Jake and his daddy, camping in the forest, awaken with a special plan for greeting the day. Elizabeth Partridge’s story about a father and son spending time together is illustrated with stunning hand sewn quilts by Anna Grossnickle Hines.

Kogi’s Mysterious Journey

Kogi longs to capture the spirit of nature in his art. He draws majestic mountains, trees, waterfalls, and Lake Biwa’s glimmering fish, but his paintings are always lifeless and dull until one supernatural morning when he wades into the cool, deep, shimmering water and becomes a golden fish. There he learns firsthand the freedom within the silence that pulsates in all of life. When hunger drives him to risk the fisherman’s baited hook, another miraculous transformation forces Kogi back to his life as a painter, but a painter now forever changed. Elizabeth Partridge’s elegant prose and Aki Sogabe’s cut paper illustrations bring clean lines and lush color to this mysterious tale of discovery. Adapted by Elizabeth Partridge. Illustrated by Aki Sogabe

Big Cat Pepper

Big Cat Pepper has always been a part of the family. But he seems to be sleeping more and more. And then one day he just doesn’t wake up again. ‘His spirit lives forever,’ the boy’s mother tells him gently. Heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time, the complex issue of death for young readers is addressed here in a loving, accessible way.

Annie and Bo and the Big Surprise

Bo wants to give his best friend, Annie, a big surprise, but what could it be? His new drawing is too scary, and he needs his marbles and his yellow tail sock for himself. The big round moon gives Bo an idea he will bake Annie a full moon cake. When things don’t turn out as planned, both Annie and Bo enjoy a big surprise not to mention the warmth and fun that friendship brings. Humor and suspense are perfectly captured and cadenced here for beginning readers.

Restless Spirit

Dorothea Lange chose to work as a photographer during a time when family was supposed to come first for a woman. Like so many women, she had a husband and children to take care of but no matter how hard she tried, family life could not substitute for the work she loved. Her passion was photographing people. During her career, Dorothea Lange captured some of the most desperate and beautiful faces America has seen in photographs. Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange includes over sixty of Lange’s extraordinary photographs printed in high quality duotones, and chronicles Lange’s life from her childhood on the Lower East Side of New York, through her early years as a portrait photographer in San Francisco, to her famous work for the government photographing starving migrant workers in California. Also included are her heart breaking photographs of Japanese Americans interned on the West Coast during World War II. Author Elizabeth Partridge has woven Lange’s own words into her book, creating not just another biography, but an intimate portrait of the artist who put faces on some of the darkest episodes in America’s history. Restless Spirit presents a magnificent showcase of work that will not soon be forgotten. Dorothea Lange was Elizabeth Partridge’s godmother and her father was Lange’s photographic assistant in the 1930s.

This Land Was Made for You and Me

Before Springsteen and before Dylan, there was Woody Guthrie. With ‘This Machine Kills Fascists,’ scrawled across his guitar in big black letters, Woody Guthrie brilliantly captured in song the experience of twentieth century America. Whether he sang about union organizers, migrant workers, or war, Woody took his inspiration from the plights of the people around him as well as from his own tragic childhood. From the late 1920s to the 1950s, Guthrie wrote the words to more than three thousand songs including ‘This Land is Your Land,’ a song many call America’s unofficial national anthem. With a remarkable ability to turn any experience into a song almost instantaneously, Woody Guthrie spoke out for people of all colors and races, setting an example for generations of musicians to come. But Woody didn’t have the chance to find everything he was looking for. He was ravaged by Huntington’s disease, just like his mother, and died in a mental institution at the age of fifty five.

Quizzical Eye

Quizzical Eye collects a lifetime of work by eighty five year old photographer Rondal Patridge son of the renowned photographer Imogen Cunningham, apprentice to Dorothea Lange, and protege of Ansel Adams. Intimately associated with the great photographers of his time, Partridge has absorbed all the techniques his famous teachers could give him, yet he wears this professional lineage lightly, dedicating himself to following the paths down which his own strange genius leads him.

Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge is filled with breathtakingly intimate portraits, devastating environmental statements, compositional wonders, and telling moments from six decades of American history the essential works of a man who has dedicated his long life to capturing single moments on film.

John Lennon

Award winning biographer Elizabeth Partridge dives into Lennon’s life from the night he was born in 1940 during a World War II air raid on Liverpool, deftly taking us through his turbulent childhood and his rebellious rock n roll teens to his celebrated life writing, recording, and performing music with the Beatles. She sheds light on the years after the Beatles, with Yoko Ono, as he struggled to make sense of his own artistic life one that had turned from youthful angst to suffocating fame in almost a split second. Partridge chronicles the emotional highs and paralyzing lows Lennon transformed into brilliant, evocative songs. With striking black andwhite photographs spanning his entire life, John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth is the unforgettable story of one of rock s biggest legends.

Marching For Freedom

The eerie silence was broken only by the sound of scuffling feet as marchers approached the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The mood was sober. Hundreds of men, women, and children had been protesting in Selma for weeks to win black Americans the right to vote. They d been threatened. Been arrested. Jailed. This march was likely to end in violence, yet they went anyway. But when state troopers attacked with billy clubs and tear gas, the brute force was a shock. Many were injured, including children. But not even Bloody Sunday, as March 7 came to be known, was enough to deter the marchers. Led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., they were committed to the voting rights movement despite the risks. Not even the youngest protestors gave up, and their defiance and courage were inspiring. Without them the struggle in Selma which culminated in a five day march to Montgomery might have failed. Marching For Freedom tells the story of how ordinary kids helped change history. Award winning author Elizabeth Partridge explores the events at Selma from their point of view, drawing on vivid recollections of some of those who marched as children. Dramatic photographs capture the danger and spirit in Selma during the turbulent spring of 1965 and offer a stunning visual narrative to the audio.

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