Berthe Amoss's Published Work

	The Chalk Cross First published in 1976, Amoss’s first novel is “ a tale of time travel and voodoo that conjures New Orleans’s haunting past.” It was runner-up for the Edgar, the Mystery Writers of America award, in the best juvenile mystery category. Clarion Books a Houghton Mifflin Company imprint Grades 6 & up • Ages 11 & up 5 1/8 x 7 5/8 • 160 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-618-82997-2 ISBN-10: 0-618-82997-0 • EAN: 9780618829972 Fiction • August • $6.95 (pa) subsidiary rights: Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc. Jennifer Weltz • jweltz@jvnla.com
	Pencil Prayer So you “can’t draw a straight line?” You don’t have to! Sophie, the Tenth Muse, pictured on the cover is “your child within” and your guide through pages of exercises and instruction in how to draw and illustrate your journal. Based on Cenacle workshops, Pencil Prayer is for all ages and can be used in groups or individually. Each chapter has the following parts: Quotations for Meditations, Essays, Journal Excerpts, Exercises and book lists. Soft Cover, Full Color, 7½ x 9½ inches Publication Date: September 15, 2006 Available Cocodrie Press
Click above for preview	About “The Chandelier” “The Chandelier” is a chapter in K is for Keep, Stories of a New Orleans Family, 1891-2006, a book in progress by Berthe and Jimmy Amoss. Each chapter in K is for Keep is a story by or about someone in our family and reflects a time and place as it was or is now. Recently included is “Through Hell and High Water” by our son Jim recounting the dramatic escape of the Times-Picayune’s courageous staff who “rode it out” in Katrina and then were trapped as the waters rose around their building in the heart of New Orleans. Through it all, they published a daily paper for which they won two Pulitzer awards. “Serendipity” is the story of how my first picture book was accepted for publication in 1966 by the then-Tsarina of children’s books, Ursula Nordstrom of Harper & Row. “Poaching on the Thames” is a chapter by Jimmy who admits to illegally casting his huge, Pass Christian mullet net in that august river as we sailed blissfully through the English countryside in our own chartered river cruiser. There is a letter written by my father on November 11, 1918 from the battlefields of WWI to his mother at home in New Orleans to let her know that when the last shots were fired , he was still alive. Another letter is from his mother to his father in 1905. She has fled a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans with her children, my father and his sisters, and is short of cash to pay the hotel bill in Cincinnati of $2.50 a day. At one point in our collaboration of K is for Keep, I thought to call a chapter “Wild Hurricanes We Have Known” paraphrasing the title of one of my favorite childhood books, Albert Payson Terhune’s Wild Animals I Have Known, because beginning in 1947, we have been in the middle of seven major hurricanes. One of the more harrowing took place at sea when we were on a freighter bound for Europe with three small children; another in a beach house, threatening to float off carrying me eight months pregnant with Jim. But all of those hurricanes are teacup tempests compared to Katrina, which instead of coming ashore, washed the shore away along with our home in Pass Christian, Mississippi and then tried to flood our New Orleans house and drown the whole city. I wrote “The Chandelier” in exile after we evacuated both houses as Katrina bore down on our Gulf Coast region. “The Chandelier” recalls in words and photos the wild hurricanes we have known.
	*Draw Yourself into... A Starlit Journey* Four color pencils, 36 full-color pages, 9 X 8½ Hard cover/wiro-bound. Word Among Us Press 2004 Available Word Among Us Press www.wau.org

	*Draw Yourself into... The Ark With Noah and His Family* Four color pencils, 36 full-color pages, 9 X 8½ Hard cover/wiro-bound. Word Among Us Press 2004 Available Word Among Us Press www.wau.org

	*A Cajun Little Red Riding Hood* A slit page movable figure interactive book in which M’sieur Cocodrie, pursues Little Red Riding Hood. MTC Press 2000 Available Cocodrie Press

	*The Three Little Cajun Pigs* A slit page movable figure interactive book in which M’sieur Cocodrie, the alligator pursues Chubby, Pudgy, and Cochon. MTC Press 1999 Available Cocodrie Press

	*Children’s Writers Reference* An at-a-glance guide to ideas, characters, plots and settings. Writer's Digest 1999 In print: Writer’s Digest

	*The Cajun Gingerbread Boy* A slit page movable figure interactive book in which the gingerbread boy, moves through cajun country. Children’s Choice Award and recipe included. MTC Press 1998 and 1999 Hyperion/Disney 1997 10th Anniversary Edition Available Cocodrie Press

	*Ten Steps to Publishing Children’s Books Children’s* How to develop, revise, and sell all kinds of books for children. Writer's Digest 1997 In print: Writer’s Digest

	*Writing and Illustrating Children’s Books for Publication, Two Perspectives* The Two Perspectives (Editor and Author/Illustrator) tell how to write, illustrate and publish children’s books in eight lessons. Amazon.Com’s number one best seller in children’s literature. Writer's Digest 1995 In print: Writer’s Digest 10th Anniversary Edition

	*The Secret of Pirate's Manor* The front cover is a jigsaw puzzle; its pieces invert and solve the mystery of Pirates Manor. Andrews & McMeel 1995 Limited quantity.

	*Lost Magic (hard cover and paper edition)* A medieval fantasy set in the 14th century. Runner-up, Georgia State Book Award Hyperion/Disney 1993 Out of Print

	*Old Hannibal and the Hurricane* Old Hannibal is back telling Billy another tall tale about how he bested the hurricane bellowing Birtha. Hyperion/Disney 1991 Limited Quantity Cocodrie Press

	*The Great Sea Monster* How to write your own book if you are in the third grade. Houghton Mifflin 1989 Parents 1976 In Print in Houghton Mifflin’s Literary Experience Program

	*The Mockingbird Song* A young romantic girl coming of age in New Orleans of the 1930’s. Harper & Row 1988 Out of Print

	*Tom in the Middle* The timeless story about the pleasures and dilemmas of being the middle child. Harper & Row 1988 and 1970 Out of print

	What Did You Lose, Santa? A wordless picture book about Santa’s plight on Christmas Eve. Harper & Row 1987 Out of print

	*Secret Lives* A mystery set in 1930’s New Orleans. Atlantic/Little Brown 1979 Dell 1979 Out of Print

	*The Loup Garou* The illustrated, suspenseful story based on the legend of the wolf man and the true historical incident, of the expulsion the ancestors of Louisiana. Pelican Press 1979 In Print

	*The Witch Cat* Concaline’s cat follows Mimi everywhere in old New Orleans. Preservation Resource Center 1977 Out of print

	*The Chalk Cross* A time-walk story of 1830’s and present day in New Orleans. An Edgar Award. Clarion 1976 Coming Back With Clarion in February 2007 in Soft Cover

	*Old Hasdrubal and the Pirates* Old Hannibal’s great-great-granddad, Old Hasdrubal, with Jean Laffite the Pirate, wins the battle of New Orleans in 1815. Parents 1971 Out of print

	*By the Sea* Wordless picture book of a little boy’s fantasy beach adventure. Parents 1969 Out of print

	*Its not Your Birthday* The familiar childhood experience of a big brother who had a birthday and a little brother who didn’t. Harper & Row 1966 Out of print
	*Searching for Magic* An unpublished sequel to Lost Magic . To be Published Online, 2001.
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