Clyde Robert Bulla
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Clyde Robert Bulla was an American author of literature for young readers. His first story, entitled "The Donkey Cart", was initially published in 1946, and Clyde Robert Bulla continued his career writing children's novels for more than fifty years afterward. His book "The Chalk Box Kid", which was first published in 1987, was a finalist for the Texas Bluebonnet Award.
Books
A place for angels
Claudine's father creates an angel that looks like her dead mother and then a series of angel sculptures that take on a special significance for her when she goes to live with her aunt after her father's death.
The Secret Valley
A family that moves to California to look for gold fails to find it, but instead discovers a beautiful valley in which to build a farm.
Charlie's house
A poor, friendless English boy, shipped to America as an indentured servant in the early eighteenth century, runs away from a cruel master and dreams of building a house of his own.
Daniel's Duck
A novice wood carver is momentarily defeated when people laugh at the result of a winter of work.
A Lion to Guard Us
Left on their own in seventeenth-century London, three impoverished children draw upon all their resources to stay together and make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father.
My friend the monster
A lonely prince forms a satisfying though dangerous friendship with a monster.
The stubborn old woman
An old woman, so stubborn she won't leave her house and farm which are crumbling into the river, meets an equally stubborn little girl who wants her to leave.
Shoeshine girl
Determined to earn some money, ten-year-old Sarah Ida gets a job at a shoe shine stand and learns a great many things besides shining shoes.
Pocahontas and the Strangers
A fictionalized account of the life of Pocahontas woven about the few facts known from historical records.
The moon singer
When he sang to the full moon in the forest, young Torr's songs were fit for the ears of the queen; but when taken to sing before her in court, he could only croak like a frog.
Jonah and the great fish
More than once stubborn Jonah had to be taught not to question the will of the Lord.
The Ghost of Windy Hill
A strange and exciting adventure began for the Carver Family when they moved into the house on Windy Hill. Was it truly a haunted house? Professor Carver insisted that it could not be, but Jamie and Lorna knew that mysterious things were happening there. It was fun to live in the country, though. The whole family loved the big old house with its lookout tower, and the woods and the fields around it. Jamie and Lorna made friends with the elusive Miss Miggie and with the lonely beggar boy Bruno who sat with his goat at the crossroads. Then one dark night it seemed as though all the legends of Windy Hill might indeed be true. Clyde Robert Bulla has written a suspenseful tale that ends, as Miss Miggie would say, with a "happy day", and Don Bolognese has captured its special flavor in pictures that perfectly match the story's strength and simplicity.
St. Valentine's Day
Relates briefly the history of St. Valentine's Day, originally celebrated by the Romans thousands of years ago.
Open the Door and See All the People
After losing everything they own, including their dolls, when their house burns down, two sisters learn about a place where they can adopt dolls.
The Viking Adventure
Sigurd, a Viking boy, cannot see the value of learning to read and write. All he can think of is adventure. But then he has an adventure that he cannot help but tell. And to do that, he decides, he must...
Benito
A Mexican boy who wants to be an artist goes to live with an uncle who makes him work in the fields all day and board in the barn at night. In spite of the severe treatment and with the encouragement of a village artist, the boy creates a place for himself as an artist and an individual.
Three Dollar Mule
A boy finds himself the owner of a mule that likes children but is very hostile to adults. To the parents' dismay and the boy's delight, all attempts to sell the animal fail.
