New Releases by Marie Hall Ets

Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.

Description: A short selection of correspondence concerning the experience of nineteenth-century migrants to the United States, possibly to aid her work on ''Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant''. Includes information about mining in Missouri, a brief account of a steerage passage, an attorney''s advice on account of a female migrant fleeing her abusive husband, and a sketch of a ''Seventeenth Ward Cottage'' in 1899.

Un petit garçon imite la façon de marcher des animaux de la ferme.

The animals join a young boy as he walks through the forest blowing his new horn.

Sketches and brief text describe how we convey our feelings and desires without using words.

"Rosa was born in a silk-making village in Lombardy, a major source of north Italian emigration. She first set foot in the United States at the Castle Garden immigrant depot on the tip of Manhattan. Her life in this country was hard, and Ets chronicles it in eloquent detail - Rosa endures a marriage at sixteen to an abusive older man, an unwilling migration to a Missouri mining town, the unassisted birth of a child, and manages to escape from a husband who tried to force her into prostitution.

A little boy mimes the walk of the animals he sees.

A boy with a horn goes into the forest and joins in a competition among the animals in which each shows off its own special skill.

Sketches and brief text describe how we convey our feelings and desires without using words.

A little girl discovers that patience is needed to attract animals as playmates.

L''enfant observe des animaux et les imite "à sa façon". Un texte simple, de jolies gravures en noir et blanc saisissent le naturel et l''ingénuité de l''enfant.

A young boy whose playmate is the wind and finds its many moods: one that can sail boats, fly kites, blow dirt, and turn umbrellas inside out.

A little boy mimes the walk of the animals he sees.

A Caldecott Honor Book Out in a meadow, a little girl just wants to play, but the animals keep running away. Until she sits still by the pond, and they all come back to her. Teaching patience and gentleness this classic story is wonderful for children of all ages.

The combined efforts of several animals can not pull an elephant from a well until a mouse adds his strength.

A boy with a horn goes into the forest and joins in a competition among the animals in which each shows off its own special skill.

A little girl goes to the meadow to play, but each animal she tries to catch runs away from her--until she sits still by the pond, and they all come back.

The animals join a young boy as he walks through the forest blowing his new horn.

A lonely little Mexican boy gets into too much mischief until he goes to the Children''s Center where he learns to play with other children and to speak English, and ultimately helps to bring his mother home.

A little girl goes to the meadow to play, but each animal she tries to catch runs away from her, until she sits still by the pond and they all come back.