Catherine Brighton, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $14.99 (28p) ISBN 978-0-385-24663-7
Marking the centenary of the Russian dancer's birth, Brighton (Five Secrets in a Box) did her homework impeccably, traveling to Leningrad to study the setting of Nijinsky's life and art, and inspecting first-hand the great Leon Bakst's original...
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Catherine Brighton, Author Faber & Faber $0 (27p) ISBN 978-0-571-13641-4
Lovely, meaningful pictures in light-filled colors illustrate Brighton's story, related effectively in short, declarative sentences. ""I am in bed. I am hot. I am ill,'' says a feverish child. She stares at the picture on one wall, a snowy country...
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Catherine Brighton, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-24598-2
Mercy, her brother Samson and her sister Hope are part of a family of actors traveling across Europe. Hope is the slow one in the troupe, always forgetting her lines and always the last to finish eating or dressing. Then the siblings watch as, with...
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Catherine Brighton, Author Dutton Books $11.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-525-44318-6
Galileo's daughter Virginia sleeps as her father observes the night skies. By day he sleeps as she rustles up to his observatory. There she espies a box with five items in it: a round piece of glass that makes small things, like words, more visible;
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Catherine Brighton, Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $14.95 (27p) ISBN 978-0-385-41537-8
Brighton's ( Nijinsky ; Five Secrets in a Box ) considerable gifts are mostly unfulfilled in this rather static picture book about the talented and precocious Austrian composer (1756-1791). As narrated by Mozart's sister Nannerl, here a rather prim...
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Catherine Brighton, Author, Dava Sobel, Introduction by Walker & Company $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-8768-2
In Galileo's Treasure Box (1987) by Catherine Brighton, young Virginia finds the tools of her father's work: two clear pieces of glass (that, combined, would create the modern telescope), a blue glass, a red glass and a feather. An afterword...
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Catherine Brighton, Author, Catherine Brighton, Illustrator . Roaring Brook/Flash Point $16.95 (28p) ISBN 978-1-59643-158-4
Brighton (My Tour of Europe by Teddy Roosevelt Age Ten
) follows the great silent actor and filmmaker Buster Keaton from his birth to vaudeville parents to his early 30s, when he emerged as a daring comic auteur. The helicopter-parented generation...
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Catherine Brighton, Author, Catherine Brighton, Illustrator Millbrook Press $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7613-0106-6
Brighton (Five Secrets in a Box) here tells the story of the unlikely friendship between Napoleon Bonaparte and Betsy Balcombe, an English girl living on St. Helena. Based on a memoir written by the grown-up Betsy, the text is presented in journal...
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Catherine Brighton, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $11.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0608-4
A tepid first-person narrative introduces readers to the Bronte family as elder sister Charlotte recounts days spent on wild Yorkshire moors, ``dear Papa's'' sermons, and the children's growing interest, even obsession, in creating imaginary worlds.
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