Best Selling Books by Natalie Savage Carlson

This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his solitary life. Children, he said, were like starlings, and one was better off without them. But the children who lived under the bridge recognized a true friend when they met one, even if the friend seemed a trifle unwilling at the start. And it did not take Armand very long to realize that he had gotten himself ready-made family; one that he loved with all his heart, and one for whom he would have to find a better home than the bridge. Armand and the children''s adventures around Paris -- complete with gypsies and a Santa Claus -- make a story which children will treasure.

SUMMARY: When the girls of the French orphanage visit the dog cemetary, Brigitte gets left behind and has an adventure with a woman whose husband is a pretender to the French throne.

A young French Canadian boy, who wants an accordion more than anything, attaches a note telling of his wish to a Christmas tree which will be sold in the United States.

When a baby is left in the orphanage''s breadbasket, all the little girls hope to keep it, even though it is a boy and should be in the boys'' home.

Adventures of a farm dog trying to find his way home.

In this third of five Orpheline stories, the girls decide that the orphanage needs a pet, but no one can agree on what kind. Will they end up with more than they bargained for?

When the parochial school in French Grove, Louisiana is desegregated, 10-year-old Lullah Royall joined her red-haired friend Oralee at school, but one by one all the students desert St. Joseph''s, frightened by phone calls and threats.

Story of an orphan boy stowaway on a seal-hunting ship off Newfoundland, and of the Captain''s dog who befriends him.

Story is about Jacot le Beau, a young fisherman and woodcarver, set in the Breton seacoast and describes the customs and dress of the inhabitants.

Seven tales that helped comprise the evenings'' entertainment for French Canadians before radio and television.

The adventures of a flop-eared mule who ran away and joined the gypsies after he discovered his blindfolded journey to Granada was actually a day''s grind at the water wheel.

A snake constantly plays tricks on his best friend, a mongoose, until he causes them both to get into serious trouble.

The twelve orphelines come to live in their new orphanage, an old castle, where with thirty boy orphans they become over-imaginative princesses and knights.

A twelve-year-old girl looks forward to a summer filled with many events, especially showing her half-sisters, arriving from boarding school, how grown up she is.

An eleven-year-old girl goes to Resurrection City with her grandmother and finds new friends with whom she has much in common.

Ann Aurelia finally finds a foster mother she really likes and a friend who is lots of fun, but when her real mother comes back to claim her, she must decide with whom she wants to live.

Marie Louise, the brown mongoose, runs away after her mother spanks her for being naughty.

An untalented but enthusiastic provincial circus family try to join a big Paris show but find a more appropriate place managing a farm for retired circus animals.

In 1900, times were hard in a little Maryland village. Ten-year-old Belle''s uncle lost his job, and Belle looks for odd jobs to help out. A surprising result leads Belle back to the school in the valley.

A Parisian mongrel successfully leads a double life until both of his "owners" enter him in the same dog show.

Hortense is a placid, motherly cow in Normandy whose search for her firstborn take her first to Africa and then to a reunion with her calf in the Petit Trianon of Marie Antoinette.

Timmy finds a way to outwit the pirate''s ghost that stands guard over a buried treasure.

Anxious to attend the carnival celebrations in the village, Marie Louise and Christophe go to the Witch Toad to get appropriate disguises so that on one will realize they are a mongoose and a snake.

An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself.

L''histoire d''une amitié, brisée par de vilains tours, renouée par les événements. Le jeune lecteur découvrira, sans doute, que Christophe peut très bien s''appeler Pierre ou Jean, que Marie-Louise est Lucie ou Brigitte car le texte, dans une approche fantaisiste, n''en demeure pas moins réaliste. Les illustrateurs, après "Oscar", "Léo", "Milton", poursuivent ici leur carrière avec des personnages sympathiques au regard particulièrement expressif. Pour les 6-7 ans.