John Cech

While being dragged around the Atlantic Ocean by a huge fish, an adventuresome cat, whose life bears an amazing resemblence to that of Ernest Hemingway, recalls the events of his previous eight existences.

The Southernmost Cat

Introduces young readers to the life and artistry of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, a young boy whose photographic images--which began with his seventh birthday and continued through the rest of his life--capture the world of pre-war Europe.

Boy with a Camera

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak

Angels and Wild Things

Bernhard Oberdieck

An abridgement of the tale in which a girl proves that she is a real princess by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds includes historical notes about Hans Christian Anderson and the original fairy tale.

The Princess and the Pea

A grandmother tells the story of her eventful life in early twentieth-century Europe and her arrival in the United States after World War II.

My Grandmother's Journey

Recreates the life of a well-known local character in nineteenth-century San Francisco, a former forty-niner who appointed himself emperor, attended public functions in an ornate uniform, and issued proclamations

John Cech

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