Best Selling Books by Emily Arnold

Witness the true story of how Mary Wilkins Ellis’ childhood passion for flying led to an exciting career in the air, written and illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist. As a child, Mary Wilkins Ellis longed to fly, but she had to wait until she was 16 before she could have her first lesson. She soon became the youngest licensed pilot in her English county, but then all civilian flight was banned when Germany launched its attacks on Britain in 1940. Mary was grounded. One day she chanced to hear a radio appeal for Britons with pilot’s licenses—even women—to join the Air Transport Auxiliary and ferry brand new fighter planes to Royal Air Force bases. Mary immediately applied, and spent the rest of the war delivering hundreds of different kinds of aircraft—most of which she’d never flown before—forming lifelong bonds with her colleagues, surviving many a close call, and helping to save her country from destruction. After the war she became a flight instructor, ran an air taxi service, then managed an airfield, the only woman in Europe to do so. In her spare time, she won rallies in her racing car. Mary’s childhood dream became a thrilling lifetime aloft, lasting until she died at 101. With watercolor and ink illustrations which perfectly capture the exhilaration of flying, Taking Off brings this little-known figure and her can-do spirit to life. Extensive material in the back of the book includes additional information about Mary Wilkins Ellis and the Airport Transport Auxiliary, as well as sources.

Recounts the true story of how four boys looking for buried treasure in the south of France in 1940 stumbled upon something much more valuable--a sealed cave whose walls were covered with prehistoric paintings and engravings.

This fascinating, informative, and touching picture book by a Caldecott Medalist is based on the true story of an eighteenth-century rhino who toured Europe and started a sensation! Clara is a book sure to fascinate young animal lovers, history buffs in the making, and kids interested in geography, as they follow a rhinoceros on her journey across Europe. In detailed illustrations, McCully shows Clara being introduced to Louis XV of France, Frederick the Great of Germany, and others willing to pay for a chance to stroke her soft lip. Her owner, a Dutch sea captain, keeps Clara fed (she eats 100 pounds of hay and 30 loaves of bread a day!) and watered (she drinks 14 buckets of water and beer) and takes loving care of her until her death 17 years later. Winner of the National Parenting Product Award

This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain’s most infamous Romantic poet, became the world’s first computer programmer. Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. At seventeen, Ada met eccentric inventor Charles Babbage, a kindred spirit. Their ensuing collaborations resulted in ideas and concepts that presaged computer programming by almost two hundred years, and Ada Lovelace is now recognized as a pioneer and prophet of the information age. Award-winning author Emily Arnold McCully opens the window on a peculiar and singular intellect, shaped — and hampered — by history, social norms, and family dysfunction. The result is a portrait that is at once remarkable and fascinating, tragic and triumphant.

When Bunny joins Miss Pooch’s class, Pete can’t stop staring at her. He thinks about Bunny all the time—even when he’s eating dinner and when he’s brushing his teeth. But when Pete sits next to Bunny on the school bus, the other kids all shout, "Pete likes Bunny! Pete likes Bunny!" At home, a dejected Pete confides in Mom, who thoughtfully suggests that Pete give Bunny flowers. As in the first two Pete books, Pete Won’t Eat and Pete Makes a Mistake, Emily Arnold McCully portrays profound emotions and important relationships—especially between parent and child—through simple text and eloquent body language and facial expressions.

This is the true story of a determined and resourceful young man whose intimate knowledge of two cultures later led him to play an important role in the opening of Japan to Western trade and ideas.

When a new bridge is built over the river, the happiest person in the town must be the first to cross it.

A walk in town turns into a harrowing adventure for six little ducklings in this early reader, now in Spanish! Following their mother down the street, the baby ducklings are swept up in a gush of water and washed down a storm drain. "Quack!" says their mother. "Cheep cheep!" call the babies. Sailing through the sewer pipes, the little ducks go, as mother duck chases them from drain to drain, trying to keep them calm. When her quacks attract the attention of a kind-hearted man, the little ducks are rescued! With warm, nostalgic watercolor paintings, Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully takes readers on a journey, chasing the little ducklings and their mother through the streets of a small town and a busier city. Perfect for young readers, this is a satisfying story of accidental adventure--with a happy ending. ¡Me gusta leer! provides emerging Spanish language readers with translations of popular I Like to Read® books. The award-winning I Like to Read® series focuses on books for kindergarten through first grade. Acclaimed author-illustrators--including winners of Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors--create original, high quality illustrations that support comprehension of simple text and are fun for kids to read with parents, teachers, or on their own!

Simplified Chinese edition of Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully. In Simplified Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Alice Cogswell was a bright and curious child and a quick learner. She also couldn''t hear. And, unfortunately, in the early nineteenth century in America, there was no way to teach deaf children. One day, though, an equally curious young man named Thomas Gallaudet, Alice''s neighbor, senses Alice''s intelligence and agrees to find a way to teach her. Gallaudet''s interest in young Alice carries him across the ocean and back and eventually inspires him to create the nation''s first school for the deaf, thus improving young Alice''s life and the lives of generations of young, deaf students to come./DIVDIV

Three books bound together.

"An awe-inspiring picture book biography about Albert Einstein and the story of how he proved his Theory of Relativity during the 1919 solar eclipse"--

First published in the US in 1997, this picture book is the sequel to the Caldecott Medal Winner ''Mirette on the High Wire''. Set in the 19th century, this is the story of Mirette, a Parisian girl who performs highwire walks with the Great Bellini. On their trip to Russia, Bellini is imprisoned for his beliefs and Mirette must overcome her fears in order to rescue him. For children aged 4-8.

A cat wanders into the church garden and children in the congregation name him Leo the Magnificent. Leo spends many happy years in the garden. When it''s time for him to go, everyone remembers their magnificent friend. Full-color illustrations.

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 1993 Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and the author of Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox come together in a lively first-level reader about a jubilant party of kids making a pizza. Original.

Recounts the life of the renowned sixteenth-century Irish woman pirate.

"Caroline Herschel was the first woman to discover a comet and the first woman to be paid as a scientist."--

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.

In the War of 1812, Caroline, the fastest runner in town, carries word about a plan to ward off bombardment by the British fleet from house to house. But when the battle begins, her courage, not her speed, is tested. Includes colorful illustrations, an author¿s note and a note to caregivers.

Grâce à Mr Laval, son instituteur, un collectionneur passionné d’os et d’outils, Jacques s’intéresse à la préhistoire depuis toujours. Aussi, quand, un jour de septembre 1940, en jouant avec ses amis Marcel, Jojo et Simon à chercher l’entrée d’un souterrain secret, il découvre une grotte gigantesque couverte de peintures de vaches rouges et de rennes noirs, Jacques identifie aussitôt des animaux préhistoriques, et les rituels sacrés de leurs ancêtres humains. Le trésor ? Il est là, sur les parois. C’est le plus bel exemple d’art préhistorique connu à ce jour, dans un état de conservation parfait. Ce que les jeunes gens sont les premiers à voir, c’est la grotte de Lascaux, sur laquelle ils se promettent de veiller jalousement...

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.

In the early 1900s, a wild little girl nicknamed Squirrel meets John Muir, later to become a famous naturalist, when he arrives at her parents'' hotel in Yosemite Valley seeking work and knowledge about the natural world.

Young Oney Judge risks everything to escape a life of slavery in the household of George and Martha Washington and to make her own way as a free black woman.

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of sexual culture and youth empowerment programming, looking particularly at sexual negotiation. This research, which was based on one year of fieldwork in San Francisco and a series of life history interviews with 20 young men who have sex with men (YMSM), provides fresh evidence of the need to take account of sexual cultures when designing and implementing HIV-related programming. The study examines three distinct sub-communities of YMSM: a higher SES predominantly White and Asian American community of YMSM, a lower SES predominantly Latino and African American community of YMSM, and a White and African American group of homeless and marginally housed YMSM. Several key findings related to the cleavages that sub-communities create within the larger community of gay and bisexual men, a population that must be re-examined in terms of its diversity. Race, SES, educational attainment, and space all played an enormous role in determining the sexual subjectivities that young men adopted. Surprisingly, higher SES YMSM engaged in higher rates of reported sexual and drug-related risk taking than lower SES YMSM, mainly due to the role that gay families played in alleviating structural factors that are related to HIV vulnerability. Homeless and marginally housed YMSM were frequently involved in high risk activities due to structural violence, which rendered them more vulnerable to HIV. Interestingly, romantic relationships were an important aspect of gay life for YMSM, who frequently engaged in elaborate strategies to preserve their relationships, including engaging in unprotected anal intercourse with this purpose in mind. Several recommendations for programming and service providers result from this study, including the need for youth advocates, researchers, policy makers, and community-based service providers who are concerned about the needs of GLBTQ youth to work together to form coalitions. In an era of abstinence-only-until-marriage sexual education, advocates of comprehensive approaches to sexual health and sexuality must collectively employ a discourse that reframes sexual health as a human right.

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