New Releases by Miska Miles

En el mundo navajo hay un tiempo para que cada cosa regrese a la tierra. La abuela lo entiende; la madre de Ani tambien, pero no Ani. Ella no puede imaginar el mundo sin la anciana, que tiene tiempo para ayudar a cuidar a los borregos, para jugar y para reir con ella. Una aproximacion a la muerte y al tiempo desde la sabiduria de las culturas amerindias.

As a year passes and no one claims him, two children become more and more attached to the stray but well-trained dog they found.

Lonely in their new town, Jenny is delighted when a stray cat comes to their house, but her mother doesn''t want the cat to stay.

A gosling discovers just how useful his father''s loud honking can really be.

Unable to adjust to the idea of being adopted and having a new mother and father, Aaron locks his door against the world.

A forgetful chicken, off to pick blackberries for his mother, almost comes home with flies, weeds, or clover blossoms instead.

Little Duck goes to see the world but decides that his pond is best after all.

Maggie is heartbroken when her father announces he must kill the otters who are eating the abalone he fishes.

After an oil slick fouls the beach a disrupted rat finds haven on a freighter.

A Navajo girl unravels a day''s weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.

Gertrude wanted to hurt Watson but tearing his only shirt brought more serious consequences than she anticipated.

An Atlantic Monthly Press book.Nobody''s cat was his own master, tough and independent, but occasionally in exchange for food he allowed himself to be petted.

An apricot falls to the ground and becomes a thing to be examined by insects, eaten by a villainous hen, and covered by the processes of nature to grow again. Each page introduces a new letter of the alphabet.

A fearful young possum flees when the Mississippi River overflows.