New Releases by Claire Huchet Bishop

Five brothers who all look alike outwit the townspeople who condemned one of them to death.

It’s bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you’ve lost your head, especially if it’s an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go, such things happen. In any case, the man who loses his head in The Man Who Lost His Head isn’t about to grin (that is, if he could grin) and bear it. No, he’ll make himself a new one, and starting with a pumpkin and moving on to a parsnip and finally picking up a block of wood, he sets about getting it just right. Still, for all his efforts, it somehow isn’t right. It isn’t the head he had before. It turns out that only a brash bold boy can save the man who lost his head from losing it altogether.Claire Huchet Bishop’s charming parable is illustrated by the great Robert McCloskey, whose books for children include One Morning in Maine, Blueberries for Sal, and the Caldecott Medal–winning Make Way for Ducklings.

After climbing the high slopes of the French Alps to tend his family''s cows, ten-year-old Marcel is faced with a difficult dilemma--obey his father or help a friend.

Five brothers who look just alike outwit the executioner by using their extraordinary individual qualities.

Georgette, the dancing French hen, involves her human friends in a lot of trouble.

To save his pet pig from becoming the family meal, a French boy runs away with him.

Petros, a young Greek guide, gives Susan, a little American tourist, a unique present.

Five brothers who look just alike outwit the executioner by using their extraordinary individual qualities.

The exciting adventures of Lafayette''s early life are described in vivid settings of medieval castles and the gay, busy life of Paris.

Ten year old Nicholas and his parrot save the family from being evicted from their home during a cold winter in Paris. Grades 4-6.

"This is the story of André Girard, who grew up in La Mouff, a poor section of Paris, and whose dreams of being a great bicycle-racer finally came true." - Dust jacket.

The life of a saint who devoted his life to teaching and helping the poor. Grades 6-9.

Ten Jewish children in German-occupied France are hidden in a Catholic school during the Holocaust.

The story of Bernard, patron Saint of travelers and skiers. Son of the proud Baron de Menthon, Bernard runs away on the eve of his wedding to join the Church.

Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II.

An absorbing reweaving of the legends about Rabrab, the friendly giant who became Saint Christopher.

An account of the Community of Work movement in Europe.

A young boy in postwar Paris is unsure of what to do with a box of pancake flour he receives as a gift.

A young calf runs away to see the world, nearly falls victim to a butcher, but then come upon a Christmas Eve pageant and is saved.