Paula Fox, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Charles Fox, Author Scholastic $16.95 (67p) ISBN 978-0-531-05462-8
Newbery Medalist Fox notes in her preface that these folktales were relayed to her by Vecchi, a friend who grew up in a mountain town near Bologna. Gracefully transferring the spoken word to the printed page, Fox incorporates into her narrative...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-87938-1
Following her tribute to proto-feminist 19th-century millworkers in The Bobbin Girl, McCully weaves a story around Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is Election Day in 1880, 32 years after Stanton organized the first women's rights convention in Seneca...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22428-7
Caldecott winner McCully ( Mirette on the High Wire ) captures the elegance of the 1920s with sprightly prose and effervescent illustrations. Felix's famous pianist father departs for a world tour, leaving behind the instructions ``You must practice.
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Putnam Publishing Group $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22618-2
When the Old Bridge crumbles into the river, the townspeople immediately commission the Jubilatti family to construct a replacement. As the relieved mayor begins to plan his ceremonial strut across the new bridge, an elderly woman reminds him of an...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-024223-7
Last seen in The Show Must Go On , Zaza, Edwin and Sarah are part of a family of theater bears; their father writes the plays, their mother directs and all of them perform. Then Zaza is invited to Hollywood to try out for a TV show. Edwin and Sarah...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author HarperCollins Publishers $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443181-1
The endearing mouse family, featured in several wordless books by McCully, turns out in force to enjoy the season's first snow. Ages 3-6. (Sept.)
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author HarperCollins Publishers $11.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-024201-5
From an accomplished author/illustrator comes a sweetly child-centered I Can Read. Pip's parents are going on a trip and there's a mix-up. Mom asked Grandma Nan to baby-sit while Dad asked Grandma Sal. The grandmothers arrive, and agree that they'll
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-024211-4
It's Christmas in the mouse ( New Baby , School , First Snow ) householda time for carols, presents, play, and sharing. While siblings try out trumpets, xylophones, lassos and other presents, the littlest mouse only has eyes for a mechanical, remote-
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-06-024130-8
McCully's fourth wordless picture book about the mouse family both celebrates the excitement of a baby's arrival and acknowledges the confusion such an event can prompt for the newly usurped youngest sibling. While its brothers and sisters crowd 'rou
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-024132-2
The exuberant mouse family of Picnic and First Snow returns in another fully captivating wordless picture book. Left alone with Mama while the eight older mice hurry off to school, the smallest mouse decides to follow them. This sibling manages to...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Arthur A. Levine Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-09976-9
Parents and kids alike will find much to love in this sweet picture book about a child's blossoming independence. Monk, last seen honing his baseball skills in Mouse Practice, now wants to camp out in his backyard, all by himself. ""I'll be okay!""...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201957-0
Thespian bear Sarah becomes jealous of an orphaned sheep that's adopted by her family. PW admired the ""fetching illustrations"" and ""buoyant tale, which will help soothe that common childhood malady of feeling neglected."" Ages 5-8. (Aug.)
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Arthur A. Levine Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-68220-6
Practice makes perfect pitch--in more ways than one--in this clever picture book about giving one's all to a favorite pursuit. With a minimum of words and a confident reliance on her jaunty illustrations, McCully focuses on a mouse family (closely...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-277699-2
As in Mirette on the High Wire and The Ballot Box Battle, a little-known bit of history serves as inspiration for McCully's latest picture book adventure featuring a likable, spirited girl. Young Maisie Ferris would much rather read about the...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Putnam Publishing Group $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22636-6
Mirette, the young French heroine who first charmed readers in McCully's Caldecott-winning Mirette on the High Wire, returns with more daring than ever in this politically charged sequel. The Great Bellini, the famous tightrope walker Mirette had...
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Emily Arnold McCully. Holiday House, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3970-6
Min, the ingenious, intrepid little pachyderm protagonist of the early reader 3-2-1-Go, is back to save the day with a new invention. The social dynamics are the same: Min, whose bright pink bow embodies her indomitable energy, wants to play with...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Dial Books $14.89 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1674-2
Like a female Oliver Twist, Kit is plucked from the streets of 19th-century London to labor for a ne'er-do-well. Her harsh taskmaster is one Professor Malefetta, manager of a traveling flea circus, who unwittingly takes her for a boy. Expecting a...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Harcourt Children's Books $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-277698-5
The thespian Bear Family makes a welcome return in this warm story, which opens as the curtain closes on one of the Bears' hit plays. Praise abounds for the writing, directing, acting--and especially for the sets painted by Blanche, an orphaned...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author HarperTrophy $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443233-7
The littlest mouse secretly scampers after eight older siblings to find out what school is all about in this enchanting wordless picture book. Ages 3-6. (Sept.)
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-028730-6
Two new beginning readers will entice the school-age set. Grandma's Trick-or-Treat by Emily Arnold McCully tells the story of Pip and her friend, Pip's two very different grandmas and a night of unexpected fun and surprises. (Sept.)
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Emily Arnold McCully. Holiday House, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2427-6
What child hasn’t felt the sting of being told to “get lost” by an older kid? In this I Like To Read book, that’s the cross borne by bear cub Sam. “You are too small.... Go home,” he hears over and over again as he follows his big sister and her...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22657-1
Gifted at breathing life into a remote past, Caldecott Medalist McCully (Mirette on the High Wire) once again reaches into the grab bag of history-and unabashedly embroidered legend-emerging with this swashbuckling tale of Grania O'Malley, Ireland's
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Emily Arnold McCully. FSG/Ferguson, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-30007-4
In the early 20th century, girls weren’t supposed to play baseball, but Rhode Islander Lizzie Murphy loved the game. Chutzpah and talent landed the redhead on two amateur teams before a manager let her play semipro: “ ‘Sure, we’ll start you at first
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Emily Arnold McCully. Holiday House, $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3664-4
McCully (Queen of the Diamond; Dare the Wind) again sets her sights on groundbreaking women with this picture-book biography of Victorian-era scientist Caroline Herschel, the first woman to discover a comet. Dynamic pen, ink, and watercolor...
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Emily Arnold McCully. Scholastic/Levine, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-439-31445-9
As an infant, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau traveled with his mother, Sakakawea, and father, Toussaint, on Lewis and Clark’s expedition, after which Captain Clark offered to “raise this ‘beautiful and promising child’ as his own son.” McCully (Ida M....
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Emily Arnold McCully, read by MacLeod Andrews. Scholastic Audiobooks, unabridged, 9 CDs, 9 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-338-15969-1
Masterful actor Andrews succeeds in capturing the multiple voices and accents presented in McCully’s ambitious imagining of the life of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea and French-Canadian Toussaint Charbonneau. Using scant records and...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22130-9
In this picture book set in 19th-century Paris, a child helps a daredevil who has lost his edge to regain his confidence. Many traveling performers stay at Madame Gateaux's boarding house, but Mme.'s daughter Mirette is particularly taken with one...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Holt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8793-2
A horse that recognizes the alphabet, fetches, and dances takes center stage in this true story from the late 19th century. McCully's tale is as much about the beloved and clever animal as it is about his owner and trainer, Bill Key. Born a slave,...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author . FSG $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-34810-6
Caldecott Medalist McCully's (Mirette on the High Wire
) lucid narrative and crisp period illustrations illuminate the early life of an impressive visionary. Born in 1838, young Mattie is inspired by the treasured toolbox she inherited from her...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Linda Zuckerman, Editor, Liz Van Doren, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201579-4
McCully's (Mirette on the High Wire) sensitively wrought paintings buoy this eloquent and wistful narrative, adapted from Harry Hartwick's Farewell to the Farivox, which introduces a 10-year-old boy living in Iowa in 1916 and the idea of endangered...
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Emily Arnold McCully. Holt, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9448-0
As she did in Wonder Horse, McCully offers a concise, evocative account of a talented, real-life animal. Raised as a police dog in Germany (“He was bred to be alert, brave, strong, and perfectly loyal”), Etzel was brought to the U.S. in 1920, before
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Emily Arnold McCully. Disney-Hyperion, $21.99 (272p) ISBN 978-136801991-0
In a dense and historically detailed volume, Caldecott Medalist McCully profiles 21 women of influence, from investigative journalist Ida Minerva Tarbell to scientist Temple Grandin. McCully casts a wide net, featuring familiar fighters for women’s...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-623852-4
Originally published without words in 1985, First Snow by Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully adds text for this reissued edition. The details that make Arnold's illustrations so warm and evocative (Grandpa skating alone on the pond, his ...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-623854-8
Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully's Picnic, initially published in 1984 as the first in a series of wordless books about an endearing mouse family, returns here in a larger format with text added by the author/artist. The smallest member of
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-89312-7
On Election Day 1880, the women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton teaches her young neighbor a lesson in gumption. ""McCully's art and story deliver [a relevant message] gracefully,"" said PW. Ages 5-8. (Oct.)
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator Dial Books $16.99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1827-2
Caldecott Medalist McCully (Mirette on the High Wire) spins an engrossing, fact-based tale with feminism and fair labor practices at its heart. Ten-year-old Rebecca supplements her family's meager income by toiling as a ""bobbin girl"" in 1830s New...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator . FSG $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-33697-4
McCully (Mirette on the High Wire
) uses history and biography as a springboard to a story about how naturalist and writer John Muir befriended a child who shared his love of the outdoors. In 1868 (according to the author's note), James...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Emily Arnold, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator Arthur A. Levine Books $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-37487-3
In this compelling picture book, Caldecott Medalist McCully explores the legend of a female kung fu master in 17th-century China. Young Wu Mei is a spirited girl, born into the Forbidden City, whose father refuses to have her feet bound or ""pursue...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $2.22 (20p) ISBN 978-0-307-10970-5
Zaza and her family (The Show Must Go On) of theatrical bears are back, and she is harboring doubts about the lives they lead. Her father writes plays like King Bear, which the family troupe then performs. ``Why can't we just be normal?'' Zaza...
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Golden Books, Author Golden Books $2.22 (20p) ISBN 978-0-307-11970-4
Bruno and Sophie met on stage, and their children Edwin, Sarah and Zaza were born to itthey sleep in steamer trunks or on stage props. Being traveling actors was ""a hard life, but it was in their blood.'' When Sophie's Great-uncle Max leaves them a
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Constance C. Greene, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (155p) ISBN 978-0-14-034542-1
When Adam's father remarries, the hapless 10-year-old must contend with an English stepsister who, to his dismay, is actually liked by his friends. Ages 8-12. (Oct.)
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Emily Arnold McCully. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-553-52246-4
“Nearly three hundred years ago, when half the world was still a mystery to the other half,” a rhinoceros named Clara became the toast of Europe, thanks to her impresario, Captain Van der Meer. But this isn’t the story of a ruthless entrepreneur and
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Emily Arnold McCully, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Author . Scholastic/ Levine $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-19274-3
McCully (Beautiful Warrior)
hits plenty of high notes with her latest history-inspired picture book, the dramatic tale of a talented young vocalist in 18th-century Venice. Even as an infant, Nina Dolci already seems to possess the same gift for...
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Emily Arnold McCully. Candlewick, $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9356-5
McCully (She Did It!) dramatically details the life of Augusta Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), the person first credited with understanding a computer’s potential beyond mathematical calculation. Lovelace’s father was the poet Lord Byron, and her...
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Emily Arnold McCully. Holiday House/Ferguson, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4966-8
In early 20th-century Britain, Mary Wilkins Ellis (1917–2018) talks her father into letting her ride in an airplane even though she’s only eight, and she subsequently earns her pilot’s license as a young adult. As WWII continues, women aren’t...
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Emily Arnold McCully. McElderry, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-8878-6
A wealth of biographical detail positions McCully’s biography of Viennese Romantic composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828). Adopting the perspective of Schubert’s friends, to whom he dedicated his final compositions, information-rich prose tracks the “ab
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