Most Popular Books by Natalie Savage Carlson

An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for the mother and children and a job for himself.

Story of an orphan boy stowaway on a seal-hunting ship off Newfoundland, and of the Captain''s dog who befriends him.

The twelve orphelines come to live in their new orphanage, an old castle, where with thirty boy orphans they become over-imaginative princesses and knights.

A snake constantly plays tricks on his best friend, a mongoose, until he causes them both to get into serious trouble.

When a baby is left in the orphanage''s breadbasket, all the little girls hope to keep it, even though it is a boy and should be in the boys'' home.

The adventures of a flop-eared mule who ran away and joined the gypsies after he discovered his blindfolded journey to Granada was actually a day''s grind at the water wheel.

When the parochial school in French Grove, Louisiana is desegregated, 10-year-old Lullah Royall joined her red-haired friend Oralee at school, but one by one all the students desert St. Joseph''s, frightened by phone calls and threats.

SUMMARY: When the girls of the French orphanage visit the dog cemetary, Brigitte gets left behind and has an adventure with a woman whose husband is a pretender to the French throne.

Story is about Jacot le Beau, a young fisherman and woodcarver, set in the Breton seacoast and describes the customs and dress of the inhabitants.

An untalented but enthusiastic provincial circus family try to join a big Paris show but find a more appropriate place managing a farm for retired circus animals.

A twelve-year-old girl looks forward to a summer filled with many events, especially showing her half-sisters, arriving from boarding school, how grown up she is.

A young French Canadian boy, who wants an accordion more than anything, attaches a note telling of his wish to a Christmas tree which will be sold in the United States.

Adventures of a farm dog trying to find his way home.

An eleven-year-old girl goes to Resurrection City with her grandmother and finds new friends with whom she has much in common.

A bear from the wilderness joins the army of New France as a solider.

Ann Aurelia finally finds a foster mother she really likes and a friend who is lots of fun, but when her real mother comes back to claim her, she must decide with whom she wants to live.

Hortense is a placid, motherly cow in Normandy whose search for her firstborn take her first to Africa and then to a reunion with her calf in the Petit Trianon of Marie Antoinette.

Marie Louise, the brown mongoose, runs away after her mother spanks her for being naughty.