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.

Main Author: DiCamillo, Kate.
Other Authors: Ibatoulline, Bagram (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.
Edition: 1st ed. in this format.
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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.
Item Description: Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9780763649968
0763649961
Author Notes: Kate DiCamillo is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Magician's Elephant; The Tale of Despereaux, which was awarded the Newbery Medal; The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, winner of a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; Because of Winn-Dixie, a Newbery Honor Book; The Tiger Rising, a National Book Award Finalist; and six books starring Mercy Watson, including the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride. She lives in Minneapolis.

Bagram Ibatoulline is the illustrator of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, as well as On the Blue Comet by Rosemary Wells; Thumbelina retold by Brian Alderson; The Animal Hedge by Paul Fleischman; Hans Christian Andersen's The Tinderbox and The Nightingale, both retold by Stephen Mitchell; The Serpent Came to Gloucester by M. T. Anderson; and Hana in the Time of the Tulips by Deborah Noyes. He lives in Pennsylvania.