New Releases by Claire Huchet Bishop

Five brothers who all look alike outwit the townspeople who condemned one of them to death.

It’s bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you’ve lost your head, especially if it’s an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go, such things happen. In any case, the man who loses his head in The Man Who Lost His Head isn’t about to grin (that is, if he could grin) and bear it. No, he’ll make himself a new one, and starting with a pumpkin and moving on to a parsnip and finally picking up a block of wood, he sets about getting it just right. Still, for all his efforts, it somehow isn’t right. It isn’t the head he had before. It turns out that only a brash bold boy can save the man who lost his head from losing it altogether.Claire Huchet Bishop’s charming parable is illustrated by the great Robert McCloskey, whose books for children include One Morning in Maine, Blueberries for Sal, and the Caldecott Medal–winning Make Way for Ducklings.

After climbing the high slopes of the French Alps to tend his family's cows, ten-year-old Marcel is faced with a difficult dilemma--obey his father or help a friend.

The classic story about five clever brothers, each with a different extraordinary ability is "a dramatic retelling of an old Chinese tale." (The New York Public Library)." . . . when Bishop makes the tall brother stretch, the sea-swallower work, or the robust one hold his breath, young children will laugh and laugh."--"New York Herald Tribune Books." Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Georgette, the dancing French hen, involves her human friends in a lot of trouble.

A biography of the eighteenth-century musical prodigy who discovered the piano at age three, played for the Empress of Austria at age six, and grew up to be a great composer, unrecognized however in his own times.

Ten year old Nicholas and his parrot save the family from being evicted from their home during a cold winter in Paris. Grades 4-6.

Andre Girard and his princiapl rival, Fernand, make up their minds to become professional racing cyclists in the hope of one day qualifying to ride in the famous Tour de France.

The life of a saint who devoted his life to teaching and helping the poor. Grades 6-9.

The story of Bernard, patron Saint of travelers and skiers. Son of the proud Baron de Menthon, Bernard runs away on the eve of his wedding to join the Church.

A young boy in postwar Paris is unsure of what to do with a box of pancake flour he receives as a gift.

Daniel, a simple Breton ferryman, yearly outwits the devil when he keeps coming for his due, until he finally gets the chance to get rid of him forever by uttering the one word the devil can't repeat during a repetition game.

Gaston and Vincent Brissard, their parents and Terry, an orphan boy in the care of the Brissard family, celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, climaxing the Christmas holidays. Three fortunate events befall Terry and he rules for a day as King, one of the three wise kings who visited the child Jesus.