Claire Huchet Bishop
(1899 - 1993)
Claire Huchet Bishop (1899 – 13 March 1993) was a children’s novelist and librarian, winner of the Newbery Honor for Pancakes-Paris and All Alone and the Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten. Her The Five Chinese Brothers won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1959.
Bibliography
All Alone (1953)
Marcel takes his family’s three cows to summer pasture on Little Giant all by himself.
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Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 1 (1962)
This collection includes nursery rhymes, folk tales, favorite poems and nearly two dozen pictures books in somewhat condensed form.
Claire Huchet Bishop
Margaret Wise Brown
Wanda Gág
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Louis Slobodkin
Et al
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Louis Slobodkin
Tasha Tudor
Et al
The Five Chinese Brothers (1938)
When the first Chinese brother is condemned to death, the second takes his place and cannot be beheaded, so he is condemned to be drowned, so the third brother takes his place ...
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The Man Who Lost His Head (1942)
When he wakes up the day after selling his pig at the fair, a man is missing his head. How to find it?
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The Truffle Pig (1971)
A pig is a boy’s best friend, especially when he can find the elusive truffle.
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Twenty and Ten (1964)
During the Occupation of France by the Germans in World War II, twenty children at a Catholic school hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis.
William Pène du Bois