New Releases by Ruth Sawyer

The adventures of Dietrich of Berne whose daring and courage won him many battles and friendships but never the thing he desired most--the hand of the Snow Queen. Laurin, though the king of the small people, fell in love with the Danish princess Kuenhild. After many tribulations, she agrees to marry him, on condition.

A Mexican lad finds a Chinese dragon on the hillside and, in return for feeding the dragon and telling him old tales, the dragon helps the boy''s village celebrate the Christmas fiesta.

An Irish lad catches a leprechaun to take with him on a trip to America, where he impresses his new friends with the splendors of his homeland and helps bring a new schoolhouse to the town.

An eight-year-old Maine girl determines in June to sell enough berries that summer so that she and her shiftless family can give a proper celebration for her birthday Christmas.

Michael had never seen the ocean before his stay with his Granny on a Florida island. When he arrives with his favorite toy, a little red horse, he is rather afraid of the ocean, but after he had to rush in to save his toy, wading seemed easy. After wading up to his middle to collect shells, swimming was inevitable. Michael makes friends on the island and the red horse had the golden sea horse in Michael''s aquarium for a friend. As he learned about shells, and swimming, and fishing, Michael also learned how to part with a thing you love and not to mind.

A beautiful old story of a little blind boy who has such a sad life, yet has faith in the Christmas miracle.

A little girl in Hungary celebrates Christmas during one of the lean years of World War I.

Of Paco and his love for Chiquitico, the least important of his father''s three burros. Grades 5-7.

After her father dies and the family firm goes bankrupt, Lucinda and her family move to Maine.

Eleven folk tales which were traditionally told by Spanish storytellers.

Story of a ten-year-old tomboy who loves to roller skate to school and wasn''t always worrying about a little lady''s social dignity in New York City during the 1890''s.