New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1959 The Silent Traveller has been to Boston to see The Hub of the Universe through quiet and observant eyes: To look at the Common and the Athenaeum; to walk east and west on Beacon Street; to look at Boston noses, Boston ears, and even Boston ghosts. Chiang Yee, distinguished Chinese author, artist, and poet combines his talents in this delightful new view of an old city, filled with unexpected and unsuspected pleasures. As in his previous books, The Silent Travell... more information

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Great Britain: Methuen & Co., Ltd. London, 1950 Chiang Yee looks at Edinburgh through Chinese eyes and takes the reader with him on many excursions through the Scottish city of mists. Those who know Edinburgh will be fascinated by his unusual approach to familiar landmarks such as the Castle, Arthur's Seat, the Hermitage of Braid and the Burns Memorial, while his descriptions will create vivid pictures of the city for those who have not so far visited it. Wonderfully illustrated in color and b&w... more information

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New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991 SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR - This beautifully-illustrated book is for all ages (a read-aloud for the younger set). It begins with the origin of this holy day and includes the Jewish celebration of Chanukah. Did you know that Christmas was not proclaimed a legal holiday until 1836? This book is packed with stories, poems, legends and songs with music to play and sing during these holidays. Includes one bible passage, 17 carols, one play, six informational pieces (suc... more information

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London, England: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited, 1986 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The wicked witch, Ermyntrude, became the arch-enemy of Lark who, until the lifestone was dropped down a chimney and into her lap, was just a wooden doll. The lifestone made her alive, though her joints were still wooden-looking. The author is a highly acclaimed actress who has made over forty films, has worked extensively in television and played leading roles in the London, New York, and Paris theatre. The binding of this book is ... more information

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Markham, Ontario, Canada: Scholastic Canada, Limited, 1993 This book, winner of a 1992 Caldecott Honor Award, is a beautifully rendered tale of blind mice trying to determine what the new thing was in their pond. Each day another mouse took a turn, checked out a different area, but only when all of the parts came together did they have the wisdom of seeing the whole. Unpaginated, the black background of the pages shows off the colorful mice and that something now in their midst. The binding has two wrinkle ... more information

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Oxford, England: Lion Pub, 1999 Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp: The men who led the early church immediately after the age of the apostles are known collectively as the Apostolic Fathers. They lived in different parts of the Roman Empire and wrote letters to the fledgling churches in much the same way as St. Peter and St. Paul had done before them. This short anthology distils the essence of their wisdom for all who seek guidance and encouragement in their spiritual lives today. The extracts gathered here are ... more information

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Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005 When John Sacret Young's cousin Doug was killed in Vietnam, Young learned that the remains of every Vietnam casualty fell into one of two official categories: Viewable of Non-Viewable. He also realized that such categories applied to how his New England family faced its own history. This memoir is beautifully written and profoundly moving. It is a powerful and persuasive examination of fathers and sons, of war and remembrance, and of famil... more information

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Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.: Univ of Washington Press, 1999 More than ten thousand public artworks have been created in the People's Republic of China since its establishment in 1949. They range from the ubiquitous Chairman Mao statues, to immense monuments and murals commemorating revolutionary uprisings, to abstract pieces inspired by international artistic trends. Eighty-three of the most intriguing of these works are featured here by American sculptor John Young, who traveled to dozens of Chinese ci... more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966 Angel in the Forest is excellent history, and at the same time it is a tale of such mysterious force, with such a rush of riches coming at us all the time, that we must wonder why so few other historians make the utmost of their subjects as she does of hers." So Van Doren writes in his Introduction to this extraordinary book, which is a chronicle of two Utopian experiments carried on in Indiana early in the 19th century. One was by Father George Rapp, a Germa... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Joanna Cotler Books, 2005 For ages 10 and up. Forty-three stories feature such characters as guardian angels who run away from their charges, witches who use the Internet to stalk their victims, and pandas who work as assassins. All is written with a healthy dose of humor. Even the binding is goofy - it's upside down and backwards! 183 pages. Some stories are as short as two to five pages, a few as long as nine pages. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.... more information

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