Great joy

Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.

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Main Author: DiCamillo, Kate
Other Authors: Ibatoulline, Bagram (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
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Summary:Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
ISBN:0763629200
9780763629205
Author Notes:Kate DiCamillo is the author of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane , winner of a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; The Tale of Despereaux , winner of the Newbery Medal; Because of Winn-Dixie , a Newbery Honor winner; The Tiger Rising , a National Book Award Finalist; and four books starring Mercy Watson, including a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. She lives in Minneapolis.

Bagram Ibatoulline is the illustrator of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane , as well as The Serpent Came to Gloucester by M. T. Anderson, Hana in the Time of the Tulips by Deborah Noyes, The Animal Hedge by Paul Fleischman, The Nightingale retold by Stephen Mitchell, and Crossing by Philip Booth. He lives in Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania.