New Releases by Arthur Yorinks

Everyone was dreaming of a white Christmas. But then Santa didn''t show up...he''d lost his pants.

This hilarious spoof of Westerns is brought to life with illustrations by Mad magazine''s Mort Drucker. Sheriff Whitefish Will was so good at rassling rustlers that soon none were left--so the penny-pinching townsfolk put him out to pasture. Then a mean, rotten, ugly gang of outlaws blows into town and . . . Whitefish Will Rides Again!. Full color.

Milton and Morris--two orphaned immigrant brothers in New York--brave their way in the New World, taking jobs as trapeze artists, fruit peddlers, and tailors, and discover life''s bitter realities.

A great wicked witch fashions for herself a daughter made a of straw, but her efforts to make the girl come to life are not successful until it is too late.

Yvan ne cesse de se plaindre. Pourtant, il mène avec sa femme une vie aisée et paisible. Si seulement j''étais Kaminski le boxeur, ou encore Belcheck, avec son argent ... Une drôle d''aventure lui fait apprécier davantage ce qu''il est.

When Irv Irving, a shoe salesman in Pinsk, loses his head, his practical wife, Irma, creates a makeshift one out of a pillowcase and old socks so that he can search for his own head.

Maurice Sendak greeted the publication of the first book by this unique author-and-artist team with an astonishing review in The New York Times Book Review, which began: "Sid and Sol is a wonder--a picture book that heralds a hopeful, healthy flicker of life in what is becoming a creatively exhausted genre. The magic rests in teh seamless bond of Arthur Yorinks''s and Richard Egielski''s deft and exciting collaboration." Sendak concluded his review with an enthusiastic "Welcom, Mr. Yorinks and Mr. Egielski!" Now Louis the Fish, their second picture book, not only fulfills the promise of the first, but amply surpasses it. Louis is a butcher. He has a nice shop on Flatbush, with steady customers. He''s "always friendly, always helpful, a wonderful guy." But Louis is not happy. He hates meat! All his life he''s been surrounded by meat. His grandfather was a butcher. His father was a butcher. His whole childhood, even his birthdays, revolved aournd meat. As a boy he tried anythign to escape--even a job after school cleaning fishtanks. But that doesn''t last long. Louis soon has to take over his parents'' butcher shop. He grows ill. Business begins to fail. All seems lost. Until on night, in fitful sleep, after uneasy dreams, Louis is changed in a profound and startling way and begins a happy new life.