New Releases by Emily Arnold Mccully

Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother''s boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

A Paris, les artistes (acrobates, jongleurs, etc.) logeaient chez la veuve Gâteau. C''est alors que sa petite fille Juliette fut séduite par les activités d''un funambule. Elle décida de faire comme lui et même qu''elle lui vint en aide. Des illustrations recherchées où se juxtaposent ombres et clairs.

John has been practicing a magic trick instead of the piano and is worried about disappointing his musician father, but then he gets to be a hero in the castle where his father is performing.

One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau- a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow''s daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it. But Mirette doesn''t know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini- master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again. Emily Arnold McCully''s sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.

When Pip''s parents go away on a trip, she ends up with two grandmas to baby-sit her. Pip is ready for fun -- but strict Grandma Nan and easygoing Grandma Sal can''t agree on anything! It''s time for Pip to take charge.

A family with a house on the river finds two beavers cutting down trees and building a lodge on their dock.

Pip and Ski have a hard time enjoying themselves at the lake with Pip''s two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything.

Zaza, an acting bear, leaves the stage to become a regular cast member of a television show but discovers that performing for the small screen is not her cup of tea.

Young Pip doesn''t know what to do when two very different grandmothers come to baby sit, each with her own way of doing things.

A daddy tickles a tiny baby as he lies on the bed.