New Releases by Emily Arnold

In this quirky duo’s third adventure, the Grandmas pitch in to help when Pip’s regular baseball coach contracts the chicken pox. But the trouble is, neither of them know beans about the game. ‘A double-threat winner, combining the humor of the two grandmas with enough play-by-play description to gladden the hearts of young baseball fans.’

All the best holiday traditions are here in this wordless picture book by Caldecott-winning illustrator and writer, Emily Arnold McCully. The decorated tree, singing carols with papa, and all the many mouse children’s going up to bed, dreaming about the presents they will find on Christmas morning. Everyone finds something marvelous under the tree, especially the remote control airplane that really flies. It’s the best present EVER, until the special surprise that comes when the family visits Grandma and Grandpa.

Stagestruck Blanche would like to be a part of a theatrical bear troupe''s new play, but, her shyness causes problems until she discovers a special talent of her very own.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Momma is black and Daddy is white but the family is many colors. The members of their loving circle make the world sweet for the two young children who are growing up tall and strong.

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.

The first snow has fallen. The mice children go sledding with Grandma and Grandpa. But at the top of the hill, who will go first? Bitty, the smallest mouse, is scared. When she tries, WHEEEEEE, she finds that sledding is the best! Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully captured the chills and thrills of a first sled ride when first snow was published in 1985. She has added words and created new pictures for this handsome larger edition, a companion to picnic.

"Beautiful day!" "Not a cloud in the sky!" "A-picnicking we go!" When Picnic was first published in 1984, readers fell in love with Emily Arnold McCully''s lush watercolors and charming story about a little mouse who is reunited with her family. Now the Caldecott artist has added words and painted bigger illustrations in her signature whimsical style to accommodate a larger-sized read-aloud book. But what has not changed is a timeless story about the hurt of being lost, and the joy of being found again.

Tricks or treats? It''s Halloween night and Grandma Sal wants everyone to play tricks. Grandma Nan wants all of the trick-or-treaters to have good manners. The grandmas'' arguing is driving Pip and her friends crazy!

Monk the little mouse learns from his parents that practice is the way to succeed--whether it is in playing baseball or in playing music.

Tells the story of two unlikely kung fu masters and how their skill in martial arts saves them both.

Three books bound together.

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.

A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers'' strike in Lowell?

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

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

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.