Best Selling Books by Claire Huchet Bishop

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?

Beginning reader.

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.

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

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

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.

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

An absorbing reweaving of the legends about Rabrab, the friendly giant who became Saint Christopher.

"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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

An account of the Community of Work movement in Europe.

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

Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II.

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.