New Releases by Marie Hall Ets

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.

"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.

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.

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 lonely little Mexican boy gets into too much mischief until he goes to the Children''s Center where he learns to play with other children and to speak English, and ultimately helps to bring his mother home.

The long journey of a captured baby seal back to its home.

A cat, a dog, and a mouse live together as enemies with a philosophical cobbler, but they become friends when they work together to rid their home of the cobbler''s fussy sister and her silly talking parrot.

David is told that he has to get rid of his dog Rinty because he will not behave, but then his ability to find mice makes him valuable.

Mr. Penny cares for a chimpanzee and a bear during the winter and by county fair time in the spring these two circus animals have taught his barnyard pets enough tricks to create a circus of their own.

When the animals discover that Cow has only grass to serve them at her birthday party everyone leaves--except Horse, Goat, and Lamb who stay at Cow''s party the rest of the summer.

When Mr. Penny and his animal family go to the village fair, the animals'' mischief is almost their downfall until Limpy the horse runs in the race and saves the day.

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

A cat, a dog, and a mouse live together as enemies with a philosophical cobbler, but they become friends when they work together to rid their home of the cobbler''s fussy sister and her silly talking parrot.

A naughty little automobile drives down the road and runs over anything that stands in its way, until it meets a train.

A homesick seal, released by an aquarium keeper into a lake instead of being killed as ordered, leads to rumors of a great sea monster.