Emily Arnold McCully

Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

A little mouse gets lost on the way to a family picnic.

A curious little mouse decides to find out what school is all about.

Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.

Always late Nate who likes to go slow surprises everyone at the race.

A young mouse decides to spend the night camping out alone in his backyard, but his parents have other ideas.

"Caroline Herschel was the first woman to discover a comet and the first woman to be paid as a scientist."--

Monk the little mouse learns from his parents that practice is the way to succeed--whether it is in playing baseball or in playing music.

"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her narcissistic mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as martyred ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron and had Ada tutored at home by some of the brightest minds. Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. At seventeen,...

In this wordless story, four kittens share adventures while their mother is away hunting food.