Catherine E Fischer

The Letter Stories

The Letter Stories

These collection of illustrated stories has as its heroes a bunch of letters with arms and legs and mouths and eyes, who communicate messages to people by saying their phonetic sounds. In doing so, they not only model helpfulness, but allow children to learn the foundations of reading skills in a re...

The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha's Vineyard

A year of fresh, simple, seasonal cooking from a rising-star chef running his grandfather's five-acre farm on Martha's Vineyard. This is the heartfelt declaration of a new American way of food, celebrating a year of cooking and farming on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Chris Fischer is a chef, f...

Orchid of the Bayou: A Deaf Woman Faces Blindness

"Mama knew I was 'not right'" Kitty Fischer says of her early childhood in Louisiana. Even though her mother never said it, Kitty knew she meant "deaf and dumb." Her communication difficulties were compounded by the bias her family endured for being Cajun. But Fischer excelled at the Louisiana Schoo...