Best Selling Books by Marie Hall Ets

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.

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.

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

A cat, a dog, and a mouse live together as enemies with a philosophical cobbler, but they become friends when they work together to rid their home of the cobbler''s fussy sister and her silly talking parrot.

"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.

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

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

A naughty little automobile drives down the road and runs over anything that stands in its way, until it meets a train.

When Mr. Penny and his animal family go to the village fair, the animals'' mischief is almost their downfall until Limpy the horse runs in the race and saves the day.

Mr. Penny cares for a chimpanzee and a bear during the winter and by county fair time in the spring these two circus animals have taught his barnyard pets enough tricks to create a circus of their own.

When the animals discover that Cow has only grass to serve them at her birthday party everyone leaves--except Horse, Goat, and Lamb who stay at Cow''s party the rest of the summer.

A cat, a dog, and a mouse live together as enemies with a philosophical cobbler, but they become friends when they work together to rid their home of the cobbler''s fussy sister and her silly talking parrot.