Jane Yolen
We appreciate great authors because their voices resonate with us. They tell us stories in a voice which echoes in our heads long after the details of plot, setting, and conflict leave us. Jane Yolen is one such author. She is also a poet and a teacher, two occupations that blend well in her novels.
Yolen
has been called the Hans Christian Anderson of America. She writes children's
books, fantasy, and science fiction-more than 200 of them. Her writings
have garnered her the Caldecott
Medal, two Nebula
Awards,
two Christopher
Medals, the
World Fantasy Award, the Golden Kite Award,
and the Jewish Book Award.
Yolen was born on Feb. 11, 1939 in New York. She was graduated from Smith College and the University of Massachusetts. Yolen also has an impressive list of volunteer and occupational involvements. She's the past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, is on the editorial board of several magazines, was on the board of directors for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and was a founding member of the Western New England Storyteller's Guild.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Isabel the Witch |
Others: |
The Witch Who Wasn’t |
Trust a City Kid (with Anne Huston) |
Isabel’s Noel |
The Wizard of Washington Square |
The Inway Investigators |
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Giants |
Hobo Toad and the Motorcycle Gang |
The Giants Farm |
The Girl Who Cried Flowers |
The Giants Go Camping |
The Magic Tree of Solatia |
The Transfigured Hart |
|
Spider Jane |
The Lady and the Merman |
Spider Jane on the Move |
The Mermaid’s Three Wisdoms |
Dream Weaver |
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Robot and Rebecca |
The Boy Who Spoke Chimp |
The Mystery of the Code Carrying Kids |
The Gift of Sarah Barker |
The Mystery of the Missing Owser |
Shirlick Holmes and the Case of the Wandering Wardrobe |
Brothers of the Wind |
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Pit Dragons |
The Acorn Quest |
Uncle Lemon’s Spring |
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Heart’s Blood |
The Stone Silenus |
A Sending of Dragons |
Cards of Grief |
The Devil’s Arithmetic |
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Piggins |
The Dragon’s Boy |
Piggins |
Wizard’s Hall |
Picnic with Piggins |
Briar Rose |
Piggins and the Royal Wedding |
Children of the Wolf |
And Twelve Chinese Acrobats |
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Books of the Great Alta |
The Wild Hunt |
Sister Light, Sister Dark |
Here There Be Witches |
White Jenna |
Here There Be Angels |
Once Upon a Bedtime Story |
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Young Merlin |
The Seaman |
Passager |
Armageddon Summer (with Bruce Coville) |
Hobby |
The One-Armed Queen |
Merlin |
Twice Upon a Time |
Queen’s Own Fool (with Robert Harris) |
|
Tartan Magic |
Boots and the Seven Leaguers |
The Wizard’s Map |
Girl in the Cage (with Robert Harris) |
The Pictish Child |
Sword of the Rightful King |
The Bagpiper’s Ghost |
Prince Across the Water (with Robert Harris) |
Barefoot Book of Stories from the Ballet |
|
Young Heroes (with Robert
Harris) |
The Salem Witch Trials: An Unsolved Mystery |
Odysseus in the Serpent Maze |
Fine Feathered Friends |
Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons |
The Perfect Wizard |
Ataltanta and the Arcadian Beast |
Grandma’s Hurrying Child |
Hippolyta and the Lost Amazon City |
Jason and the Gorgon’s Blood |
--B. Redman
