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.

Beginning reader.

The people of a French village in the Alps never work together until two shepherd boys and a potential catastrophe show them the way.

A powerful look at an unforgettable era in history “If we take these children, we can never betray them, no matter what the Nazis do.” During the German occupation of France, twenty French children were brought to a refuge in the mountains. One day a young man came to their school with a request: Could they take in, and hide, ten Jewish refugee children? Sister Gabriel spoke up. “The Nazis are looking for those children. If we take them we must never let on they are here. Do you understand?” Of course the children understood—but how would they hide them if the Nazis came?

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

To save his pet pig from becoming the family meal, a French boy runs away with him.

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.

Petros, a young Greek guide, gives Susan, a little American tourist, a unique present.

The exciting adventures of Lafayette's early life are described in vivid settings of medieval castles and the gay, busy life of Paris.

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.

"This is the story of André Girard, who grew up in La Mouff, a poor section of Paris, and whose dreams of being a great bicycle-racer finally came true." - Dust jacket.

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.