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Books published by publisher Farrar Strauss Gireax

  • How Brown Mouse Kept Christmas

    Clyde Watson, Wendy Watson

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1, 1980)
    Brown Mouse had never been out of the attic until one night when he pleaded and was allowed to go downstairs with the other mice, and what Brown Mouse saw when he got there amazed him
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  • A Pocket Full of Posies

    Roy Gerrard

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Oct. 1, 1991)
    Presents an illustrated collection of traditional nursery rhymes.
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  • Dawn

    Uri Shulevitz

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Dec. 15, 1974)
    Pays tribute to the dramatic beauty of the daily miracle of dawn
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  • Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis

    Thomas Merton, William H. Shannon

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Dec. 1, 1994)
    Gathers Merton's letters to friends, philosophers, artists, and fellow writers, and includes letters about the Cold War
  • Carmine the Crow

    Heidi Holder

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1, 1992)
    Generous Carmine the crow shares his wishing stardust with all of the sad creatures in the forest until he is left with only a single grain to help him grant his own wish.
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  • Camilla's New Hairdo

    Tricia Tusa

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1, 1991)
    Shy Camilla, a young lady who can do anything she wants with her hair, lives alone in a tower that has no door, until Mozelle, a girl trying to fly, crash-lands on Camilla's balcony
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  • Frog in Love

    Max Velthuijs, Anthea Bell

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus Giroux, May 1, 1989)
    Frog is head-over-heels in love with Duck but, too shy to tell her so, he paints her a picture, sends her flowers, and jumps the high jump to demonstrate his affection
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  • Dog Is Thirsty

    Satoshi Kitamura

    Board book (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1, 1996)
    Dog is thirsty, but every time he finds some water it turns out there is a reason he cannot drink it
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  • Journey With Jonah

    Madeleine L'Engle

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1967)
    A dramatization of the Biblical story of Jonah, unwilling prophet to Nineveh, who spent three days in the belly of a whale and learned a lesson of compassion from a withering vine.
  • Natural History

    M. B. Goffstein

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1979)
    Text and illustrations descibe the riches of the earth and how people can promote peace and goodwill by sharing equitably with each other and their fellow creatures.
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  • Crows: An Old Rhyme

    Heidi Holder

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1, 1987)
    The trials and triumphs of Willie the Weasel and Millie the Mink are set against the backdrop of a version of a traditional rhyme, which reveals twelve prophetic omens
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  • Sleepy People

    M. B. Goffstein

    Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Oct. 1, 1979)
    Soft, gray drawings induce slumber by showing a family of droopy-lidded, sleepy people who live in some old bedroom slippers where they are cozy and warm
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