Title: Scapegoat: The Story of a Goat Named Oat and a Chewed-Up Coat
Author: Dean Hale
Illustrator: Michael Slack
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books
Release Date: June 21, 2011
ISBN: 978-1599904689
Size: 32 pages, 9×11, hardcover
Genre: Picture Book
This book is not eligible for a Whitney Award.
In the Choat family, you never have to look hard to find a culprit. Missing TV remote? Blame the goat! Lost coat? Keys in the moat? Broken boat? Blame the goat!
But don’t be surprised if the goat doesn’t take it lying down. In this hilarious, rhyme-happy picture book, children will love to pore over the funny illustrations, picking up clues that all is not as it seems between Jimmy Choat and the goat, Petunia P. Oat. Because Petunia knows who’s really to blame, and before long the whole family will too!
Title: Eliza’s Field of Faith
Author: Rachelle Pace Castor
Illustrator: Dixon Leavitt
Publisher: Covenant
Release Date: August?
ISBN: 978-1-59811-658-8
Size: 32 pages, 8.5×11, hardcover
Genre: Picture Book
“When the prophet calls, it is as if God is calling. And I’m not about to tell God no.”
Three years is a long time, but that is how long Papa would be away on the Lord’s errand. Now it is up to Eliza and the rest of her family to make sure the wheat is planted in time to reap a good harvest. But because Papa is gone this year, everyone else in Dry Creek has seedlings sprouting before Eliza’s family is able to get their crop in the ground. Will harvest time bring abundance or yet another hungry season?
A beautifully illustrated tale based on a true story, Eliza’s Field of Faith shows how miracles sometimes happen in unexpected ways.
