New Releases by Marie Hall Ets

Cherished by generations of readers, this international holiday classic recounts the tale of a Mexican girl's excitement at the approach of Christmas. Hardcover Spanish-language edition of the 1960 Caldecott Medal winner.

Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.

Description: A short selection of correspondence concerning the experience of nineteenth-century migrants to the United States, possibly to aid her work on 'Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant'. Includes information about mining in Missouri, a brief account of a steerage passage, an attorney's advice on account of a female migrant fleeing her abusive husband, and a sketch of a 'Seventeenth Ward Cottage' in 1899.

Description: Two partial typed manuscripts with handwritten corrections, the first in colloquial language, and the second in prose. The accounts recall life in nineteenth-century Lombardy, clothes manufacture in Japan, and the experience of migrating to the United States.

Un petit garçon imite la façon de marcher des animaux de la ferme.

Simplified Chinese edition of Play with Me

一个小男孩,拿着他的新喇叭,戴上纸帽子,走进森林。他遇到了正在梳头的狮子、正在洗澡的象宝宝、吃着蜂蜜和花生的大棕熊、教袋鼠宝宝跳高的袋鼠妈妈和爸爸、病弱的老鹳......

A little boy mimes the walk of the animals he sees.

"Rosa was born in a silk-making village in Lombardy, a major source of north Italian emigration. She first set foot in the United States at the Castle Garden immigrant depot on the tip of Manhattan. Her life in this country was hard, and Ets chronicles it in eloquent detail - Rosa endures a marriage at sixteen to an abusive older man, an unwilling migration to a Missouri mining town, the unassisted birth of a child, and manages to escape from a husband who tried to force her into prostitution.

In this magical book, Gilbert discovers that the wind can be an unpredictable playmate. Sometimes it helps him to sail his toy boat, catch apples that fall from the trees, and spin his pinwheel. At other times, it keeps him from flying his kite or raking leaves. In the end, he and the wind affirm their special bond. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

Gilberto descubre que el viento puede ser un compañero de juegos bastante impredecible. Las expresivas ilustraciones captan el juego de luz y movimiento con tonos neutros y blancos brillantes. --Publisher.

A little girl goes to the meadow to play, but each animal she tries to catch runs away from her--until she sits still by the pond, and they all come back.

A boy with a horn goes into the forest and joins in a competition among the animals in which each shows off its own special skill.

A little girl discovers that patience is needed to attract animals as playmates.

A young boy whose playmate is the wind and finds its many moods: one that can sail boats, fly kites, blow dirt, and turn umbrellas inside out.

A little boy mimes the walk of the animals he sees.

A Caldecott Honor Book Out in a meadow, a little girl just wants to play, but the animals keep running away. Until she sits still by the pond, and they all come back to her. Teaching patience and gentleness this classic story is wonderful for children of all ages.

The animals join a young boy as he walks through the forest blowing his new horn.

Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.

The combined efforts of several animals can not pull an elephant from a well until a mouse adds his strength.

Written for children, the story follows and describes the growth of a baby through its many embryonic changes to birth and the baby''s first smile.

A boy with a horn goes into the forest and joins in a competition among the animals in which each shows off its own special skill.

A young boy and the animals in the forest see which one can perform the best tricks.

The animals join a young boy as he walks through the forest blowing his new horn.