“It’s good to have a Goffstein,” said The New York Times Book Review. Here’s something even better—twenty-six of M. B. Goffstein’s best-known, and best-loved, books for children and adults.
Groundbreaking when first published, and perhaps more resonant today than ever, Goffstein’s work champions the value of simplicity, nature, self-reliance, spiritual connections, and living a creative and meaningful life. With humor and insight, Goffstein enlarges our world from seemingly small details. With lyrical artist biographies, poetic gems, stories of family and making one’s way in life, Words Alone is also a celebration of a singular writer and artist.
Two sensitive and funny portraits of young women determined to be artists and coming of age in the late 1950s, M. B. Goffstein’s novels for young adults are available again—published together for the first time in one volume.
Drawing from the author’s own life experience, The Underside of the Leaf and Daisy Summerfield’s Style are both about the journeys of girls from the Midwest, as they explore the boundaries of their lives and talent. In each, New York City plays a powerful part particularly the artistic and bohemian center, Greenwich Village.
IT’S MURDER AT THE FLEA MARKET! Evildoers and crazed collectors beware. Daisy Summerfield, a crime-fighting sculptor with a severe case of artist’s block, is on the case. Will Daisy untangle the riddle of the missing Fiestaware, the cute bear, the flea market poisoner? And will she get her art back on track?
In M. B. Goffstein’s homage to art and artists, and to light, cozy, lovable, dimwitted mysteries, you’ll delight in the intrigue of whodunits and in the endless romance of finding treasure in boxes marked “$1.”
Set in the years between 1989 and 2000, and ranging from New York City to Westchester County, this series of stories includes: A Little Cracked, Death Goes Dutch, The Little Notebook, The Blue Glow, The Chantilly Box, The Cute Bear, The Covered Jar, The Best Art, The Big Show, An Evening Skirt, and Farewell, Mr. Flea. A special section bibliography lists the author’s favorite books on china.
In M. B. Goffstein’s last work, she offers a collection of stories and verse that paint a world of cosmic twists and inapparent truths that delight and inspire.
In this place, little girls save gangsters, all books go to heaven, and it’s always summer at Lake Minnetonka. By turns funny, beautiful, and heartbreaking, these novelettos and poems are a beloved author’s gift to writers and readers everywhere.
In this place, little girls save gangsters, books go to heaven, and it’s always summer at Lake Minnetonka. By turns funny, beautiful, and heartbreaking, these novelettos and poems are a beloved author’s gift to writers and readers everywhere.
This collection contains The Mildred Stories (including Days and Nights at Our Prairie Home and Up at the Lake), The Lorraines in Hollywood, Lady Tannenbaum and Myself, Mario’s Garage, Biography of Miss Go Chi, and Brooke’s Last Words. An afterword includes two poem-tributes: Paper Dolls by Doreen Stock and For Brooke by Bill Zavatsky.
Sketches by M. B. Goffstein to promote her ebooks as “coming soon.”
White Moccasin
An Evening Skirt
The Lorraines in Hollywood
Lady Tannenbaum
