Claire Huchet Bishop

Children's cycling story. The Tour de France.

During the Nazi occupation of France, twenty ordinary French children in a boarding school agree to hide ten Jewish children. Then German soldiers arrive. Will the children be able to withstand the interrogation and harassment? Based on a true story.

A young boy in postwar Paris is unsure of what to do with a box of pancake flour he receives as a gift.

The people of a French village in the Alps never work together until two shepherd boys and a potential catastrophe show them the way.

The life story of the Spanish-Negro, the Dominican lay brother and medical assistant of 16th century Lima, Peru. Martin devoted his life to teaching and helping the poor. He was beatified in 1837, almost one hundred years after his death.

An absorbing reweaving of the legends about Rabrab, the friendly giant who became Saint Christopher.

A biography of the prolific eighteenth-century German composer whose works were largely unknown outside of Germany until the nineteenth century.

A biography of the eighteenth-century musical prodigy who discovered the piano at age three, played for the Empress of Austria at age six, and grew up to be a great composer, unrecognized however in his own times.

When a man discovers he has lost his head he tries several substitutes, but none is satisfactory.

Late on Christmas Eve Peter, Benjamin and Lilly set off on a slip-slidey Christmas adventure!

"Will you hide them here with you?" the man asks. A shiver runs through the class. Ten refugee children are in terrible danger--hunted by the German soldiers. Can the class save these children? What will happen if the Germans find out? Set in occupied France during WWII, and based on the true story of twenty French 5th graders who are asked to hide ten Jewish children.

Georgette, the dancing French hen, involves her human friends in a lot of trouble.

To save his pet pig from becoming the family meal, a French boy runs away with him.

An account of the Community of Work movement in Europe.

Five brothers who look just alike outwit the executioner by using their extraordinary individual qualities.