that she got. Her friend Bertha Mahony Miller, an editor of Horn Book, would frequently call from seventeen miles away with ideas for Elizabeth to write about. One of her illustrated books, Small Rain: Verses from the Bible, was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 1944 and another, Prayer for a Child (story by Rachel Field), won the Caldecott Medal in 1945, recognizing the year's "most distinguished picture book for children" published in the United States. In her Caldecott acceptance speech, she said: Later life In 1945 Elizabeth visited New Hampshire for a business trip. The picturesque landscape caught her imagination, and she moved to Mason soon afterward. Jones became a well-respected figure in Mason, as she served to collect and preserve the history of the town in Mason Bicentennial, 1768-1968 a book she edited. She was known there, not by her given name, but by the nickname "Twig", the title character from one of her books. Many Masonians do not know her as anything other than that. She died on May 10, 2005 at the Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, New Hampshire, of a brief illness. On June 25, 2005, the Mason Public Library renamed its Junior Room the "Twig Room" in her honor; a scrapbook of Twig memorabilia is available there. Perhaps one of "Twig's" greatest, most enduring accomplishments was her adamant support of a local summer children's theater, known as Andy's Summer Playhouse. Every year for the last 40 years of her life, she offered artistic advice and guidance to many of the children in the community who participated in the Playhouse. Works Written and illustrated Ragman of Paris and His Ragamuffins, Oxford University Press, 1937. Minnie the Mermaid (with Thomas Orton Jones), Oxford University Press, 1939. Maminka’s Children, Macmillan, 1940, reissued, 1968. Twig, Macmillan, 1942, reissued, 1966. Purple House Press, 2002. Big Susan, Macmillan, 1947, reissued, 1967. Purple House Press, 2002. Little Red Riding Hood (reteller), Simon & Schuster, 1948. How Far Is It to Bethlehem?, Horn Book, 1955. Children's books illustrated Bible, David, Macmillan, 1937. Adshead, Gladys L., Brownies—Hush!, Oxford University Press, 1938, reissued, Walck, 1966. Meigs, Cornelia Lynde, Scarlet Oak, Macmillan, 1938. Association for Childhood Education, Told under the Magic Umbrella: Modern Fanciful Stories for Young Children, Macmillan, 1939, reissued, 1967. Hunt, Mabel Leigh, Peddler’s Clock, Grosset, 1943. Jones, Jessie Mae, editor, Small Rain: Verses from the Bible, Viking, 1943, reissued, 1974. Field, Rachel,