New Releases by Alice McLerran

This well-loved story by an American writer draws from universal truths as it tells a lyrical tale of a small bird that changes the life of a cold and bare mountain. Read, performed and presented through puppets all over the world, it has also been dramatised innovatively in different countries, the most recent being Japan. This new edition has rich and evocative illustrations by Stephen Aitken, who lives in Himachal Pradesh.

A beautiful bird brings life to a lonely, barren mountain.

A beautiful bird brings life to a lonely, barren mountain.

A beautiful bird brings life to a lonely, barren mountain.

A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.

Marian called it Roxaboxen. (She always knew the name of everything.) There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill -- nothing but sand and rocks, some old wooden boxes, cactus and greasewood and thorny ocotillo -- but it was a special place: a sparkling world of jeweled homes, streets edged with the whitest stones, and two ice cream shops. Come with us there, where all you need to gallop fast and free is a long stick and a soaring imagination. In glowing desert hues, artist Barbara Cooney has caught the magic of Alice McLerran''s treasured land of Roxaboxen -- a place that really was, and, once you''ve been there, always is.

Managing to raise a dragon in an ordinary house is hard enough; keeping others from noticing you are doing so is even more of a challenge.

Billedbog. Bakken ved navn Roxaboxen, som er dækket af sten og træstykker, forvandles til en fantasiverden for Marian, hendes søstre og venner.

"McLerran''s elegant, spare text begins by describing the result of white settlers'' relentless westward movement in the U.S. The scenario is one often related in books sympathetic to Native Americans: buffalo, their hides stripped, left to rot on the prairie; streams stripped of fish; and herds of elk and buffalo depleted. In poetic prose, she talks about a Paiute visionary, Tavibo, and his son who each dreamed that if Native peoples danced, the white people would disappear and the ghosts of the wildlife that had been decimated would return. . . . Morin''s thoughtful assemblages contain many objects that place the book in its historical context. The evocative paintings feature a variety of textures. . . . This stunning book will hold great appeal for environmentally conscious readers, and will interest classroom teachers seeking a poetic call-to-action." --School Library Journal, starred

Memoirs, reminiscences, and graphic materials combine to weave a tapestry of Roxaboxen, an imaginary place that the 11-year-old Marion and her friends created. A glimpse of how a young author''s work inspired a movement to ensure that children could continue to play on the hill that imagination had transformed forever.

In 1919 Papa, Mama, and their four daughters homestead a tract of land near Yuma, Arizona, and try to turn a desert mesa into farmland and a shack into a home.

Illustrations and rhyming text show all kinds of kids getting all kinds of kisses.

Illustrations and rhyming text explore the different meanings hugs can have.

Mark is not looking forward to spending eight afternoons taking his little sister to play with her Russian friend but his friend Jeff persuades him that this will be a good opportunity for some counterespionage.

Story of friendship between a bird and mountain for children.