J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen. Creative Editions, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56846-211-0
Lewis and Yolen pair 14 poems about Marc Chagall (1887–1985) with reproductions of more than a dozen of his paintings (as well as vintage photographs) in this moving account of the artist’s Jewish upbringing in what is now Belarus (“Oh, Uncle, play...
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J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen, illus. by Jeffrey Stewart Timmins. Charlesbridge, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58089-260-5
Lewis and Yolen team up for a darkly funny homage to the dearly departed—those with feathers, hooves, tails, and fins. An axe leans against a blood-stained stump while three feathers drift nearby (“Sorry, no leftovers,” reads a turkey’s epitaph),...
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J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen, illus. by Sophie Blackall. Candlewick, $17.99 (72p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3702-6
This playful collection of twin-themed poems, a welcome addition to the bookshelf on the subject of twins, is as much for parents as for kids. Early poems focus on the time before birth: “Wrestling in the family womb,/ You and sister linger,” reads...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-458-4
Two dozen stories of women warriors form this epic anthology of stories about those forced to fight, those who chose to fight regardless of odds, those who ran from their destiny as warriors, and those who will end war at any cost. In Caitlín R....
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-404-1
Despite the subtitle, Guran (The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons) has actually filled this anthology with adaptations of familiar tales. The stories include urban fantasy (“Warrior Dreams” by Cinda Williams Chima, with grindylows in Lake Erie),...
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Clement Clarke Moore, Author, Jane Yolen, Author, Max Grover, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201713-2
Spiffy acrylic paintings of a wintry urban landscape dotted with tangy candy-colored buildings give the classic poem some modern zip. The artist's whimsy shines in an ""Identification Chart: How to Recognize Santa!"" and the exploits of the...
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Edited by Gordon Van Gelder. Tachyon (IPG, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-61696-163-3
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—aka F&SF—has been one of the flagships of speculative fiction since its founding in 1949. While similarly lauded magazines, like Galaxy, Galileo, and If, have fallen by the wayside, F&SF steadfastly soldiers
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Jane Yolen, Author . Harcourt $17 (368p) ISBN 978-0-15-202527-4
In Yolen's spellbinding twist on the Round Table legend, Morgause feels that her 17-year-old son Gawaine belongs on the throne of England. As she attempts to install him there, she tangles with both the court wizard and Gawaine himself. The...
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Jane Yolen, Author . Harcourt/Magic Carpet $5.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-15-202563-2
A troll, his younger brother and his best friend venture into the dreaded New Forest to hear Boots and the Seven Leaguers in concert. There they encounter a number of characters as they search for the younger brother who goes missing during their...
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Jane Yolen, Author . Algonquin $14.95 (90p) ISBN 978-1-56512-402-8
These 43 sonnets by Yolen, a bestselling children's author (How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?), are written in the traditional rhymed form with three quatrains and a couplet. After her husband, David, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor,...
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Jane Yolen, Author . Harcourt/Magic Carpet $6.95 (361p) ISBN 978-0-15-202533-5
Morgause feels that her 17-year-old son Gawaine belongs on the throne of England, in what PW
's starred review called "a spellbinding twist on the Round Table legend." Ages 12-up. (Aug.)
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Jane Yolen, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (170p) ISBN 978-0-14-034535-3
When 12-year-old Hannah is transported back to a 1940's Polish village, she experiences the very horrors that had embarrassed and annoyed her when her elders related their Holocaust experiences. Ages 12-up. (Oct.)
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Jane Yolen, Author Apple $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-37073-8
These three books make up the author's Young Merlin trilogy, imagining the childhood and coming-of-age of the famous wizard of Arthurian legend. Ages 9-12. (Sept.)
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Jane Yolen, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-15-202067-5
Yolen gathers all the ingredients for a compelling middle grade fantasy novel, but the recipe falls short in this first book of her Tartan Magic series. Reluctantly spending his summer vacation with his family in Scotland, visiting his mother's...
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Jane Yolen, Author Tor Books $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-87378-3
Although Yolen (The One-Armed Queen) has published a great deal of acclaimed SF and fantasy (and children's fiction), this is her first collection of genre stories for adults--and it has been worth the wait. Three of the 28 entries here are new, and
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Jane Yolen, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (176p) ISBN 978-0-15-202557-1
Yolen's (Wizard's Hall) plodding tale reads more like a farce than a fantasy. Narrator Gog, a young troll, is dismayed not to have a ticket to hear his favorite band, Boots and the Seven Leaguers, perform their annual concert in the Kingdom of the...
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Jane Yolen, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-15-202310-2
In Jane Yolen's The Bagpiper's Ghost, book three in the Tartan Magic series, a trip to a Scottish cemetery entangles American twins Jennifer and Peter in the afterlife feud of former lovers. ( Apr.)
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Jane Yolen, Author Viking Books $16.99 (170p) ISBN 978-0-670-81027-7
The Holocaust was so monstrous a crime that the mind resists belief and the story must be made new for each individual. Yolen's book is about remembering. During a Passover Seder, 12-year-old Hannah finds herself transported from America in 1988 to...
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Jane Yolen, Author Orchard Books (NY) $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-05838-1
The rhythmic voice in this collection of nine stories and six poems is unmistakably that of a master storyteller and poet. ``Once upon a time. . . ,'' says the narrator of the first poem, and the reader is transported immediately into realms where...
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Jane Yolen, Author Tor Books $17.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-312-93195-7
This sequel to Sister Light, Sister Dark follows Jenna into adulthood as she reluctantly fulfills the prophesy naming her the Anna, the warrior queen who will lead her people out of oppression. In the land of the Dales, conquered by the patriarchial
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Jane Yolen, Author Philomel Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22262-7
Based on Scottish stories about the selchies--seals who take on human form--Yolen's tale is as lilting and deep as the sea itself. A fisherman and his wife are overjoyed when the stray seal pup that the fisherman brings home turns into a baby with ``
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Jane Yolen, Author Tor Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-85243-6
Following the format of the two earlier books in the White Jenna oeuvre (Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna), the third shows how myth, legend, song, history and story interweave to create a magical tale that is neither wholly truth nor...
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Jane Yolen. Philomel, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-25664-6
Yolen follows her Snow White retelling, Snow in Summer (2011), with a similarly inventive spin on Sleeping Beauty (like that book, this novel also derives from one of the author’s short stories). Half elf, half fey, Gorse is the youngest of 13, and...
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Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple, illus. by Rebecca Guay. Charlesbridge, $18.95 (172p) ISBN 978-1-58089-185-1
Mother-daughter collaborators Yolen and Stemple, who previously partnered with Guay on The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories, revisit the lives and legendary misdeeds of 26 notorious women in this often witty chronological romp. Jezebel, Salome,...
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Jane Yolen. Zonderkidz, $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-310-74648-5
Yolen (Owl Moon) weaves a magical yet believable tale of myth and magic in this charming middle-grade fantasy. In the mythical kingdom of Callanshire, James, son of the Duke of Callander, is sent away at age nine to study at Cranford Abbey. The...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Chris Monroe. Carolrhoda, $16.99 (184p) ISBN 978-1-4677-1234-7
When an inquisitive red squirrel named Nutley summons the nerve to offer the "Paw of Friendship" to a group of nearby gray squirrels, they respond by tossing him off a cliff. Fearing for his life after the Grays subsequently kill his parents, Nutley
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Jane Yolen, Author, Midori Snyder, Author . Roc $23.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-451-46273-2
World Fantasy Award–winning Yolen (Dragon’s Heart
) teams up with Snyder (The Innamorati
) to weave a magical tale. After Serana and Meteora stumble across a secret that could damage the reputation of the Fairy Queen, the close-knit fae...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Georgia Pugh, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-240-9
``It was a hot summer day,/ the air crackling with heat''-Strider the dog lies in the sun, Jordie sits motionless on the swing, and Pete and Sara read and color. When Jordie brings out the hose everyone leaps with gusto into the cool spray, happy to
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Jane Yolen, Author, Stephen Mackey, Illustrator Dutton Books $24.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-525-46045-9
Yolen (Child of Faerie, Child of Earth) heralds the seductive charms of fairyland in this volume of stories and poems, masterfully illustrated with Mackey's (Cat Up a Tree) mystical oil paintings. The selections present a wide range of fairy lore...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Robert Harris, Author, Robert Harris, Joint Author Philomel Books $18.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-399-23627-3
The second in a planned quartet of historical novels set in Scotland (which began with Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots), Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen and Richard J. Harris finds the 11-year-old daughter of the newly crowned King
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Jane Yolen, Author, Robert J. Harris, Illustrator, Robert J. Harris, Joint Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-029454-0
Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris present Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast, the third title in their Young Heroes series, which began with Odysseus and the Serpent Maze. Twelve-year old Atalanta befriends a bear, whom she names Urso, and enlists him
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Jane Yolen, Author, Leslie Baker, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-96891-1
The highly prolific Yolen ( Owl Moon ; Elfabet ) here relates a bittersweet memory from an important period in her childhood: the two years during which her father was away at war. She recalls the fun she and her cousin Michael had when the family...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Leslie Baker, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-96893-5
As this sentimental tale of the heart's ``own compass'' begins, Betsy is packed off to Nana and Grandy's farm one spring while her mother battles a difficult pregnancy and her father remains hard at work. At first Betsy feels homesick: ``Those days...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Steve Adams, Dutton, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-47886-7
Fittingly for the writer who would create "the boy who wouldn't grow up," this biography of J.M. Barrie is just as focused on his childhood as it is on his adult life. Before Barrie began his legendary play he first honed his writing, faced love and
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Linda Graves. Marshall Cavendish, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5958-3
There isn't a dull moment in Yolen's rousing retelling of this Norwegian folktale, in which a girl tames a polar bear cub, defeats a band of tattooed trolls, and arrives at the court of the King of Denmark to royal acclaim. In the original, a bear...
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Jane Yolen and Rebecca Kai Dotlich, illus. by Matt Mahurin. Boyds Mills/Wordsong, $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59078-867-7
Yolen and Dotlich refashion 15 classic fairy tales into incisive poems told from dual perspectives. Cinderella laments wearing glass shoes when other choices were more sensible (“I could have put on/ moccasins./ Those would have been real stunners”).
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Jane Yolen, Author, Laurel Molk, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-90228-1
Yolen's (Child of Faerie, Child of Earth) rhyming picture book chirps a chipper spring song about young animals off to a visit with Grandma. Little Mouse moves ""tip-toe, tippity-toe,"" Little Mole begins to ""dig-deep, diggity deep"" and Little...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Laurel Molk, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $5.95 (8p) ISBN 978-0-316-90972-3
""Tip-toe, tippity-toe Over the leaves and down below Off to Grandma's house we go Sings Little Mouse,"" in Off We Go! by Jane Yolen, illus. by Laurel Molk. Little Frog, Little Mole and others have the same idea in this rhythmic, repetitive jaunt.
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Katie May Green. Philomel, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-16741-6
An unnamed Jewish girl living in Paris fervently believes in angels—she need only look at the Gothic buildings around her to know they exist. Those angels seem “farther and farther away” after the Nazis force her family to flee, but she never loses...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Lisel Jane Ashlock. Creative Editions, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-56846-255-4
In succinct, evocative poems, Yolen describes the seasons as they unfold in a forest habitat. In one winter scene, children play in the distance while foxes frolic in the foreground, and an owl and an ermine stare out at readers (“High-balling, low-b
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Melanie Cataldo. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6953-9
It is 1971, and a girl named Sally and her brothers are walking home across the sand dunes of their Maine town when she sees "this big gray thing, humped on the drying sand." It's a beached gray whale, which Sally attempts to help by soaking her...
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Edited by Mike and Anita Allen. Mythic Delirium, $14.95 trade paper (164p) ISBN 978-0-9889124-5-8
The brilliant and the bland run side-by-side in the Allens' second collection of strange tales. Vivid prose and creepy concepts appear in Jessy Randall's "Maybe a Witch Lives There," in which two teenage pranksters get more than they bargained for...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Ellen Shi. Persnickety (Legato, dist.), $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-943978-01-4
Vivid autumn foliage is generally considered to be a thing of beauty, but those unfamiliar colors spell danger to a young frog. “To Little Frog, red and gold were scary,” writes Yolen (On Bird Hill). “They were the colors of hot sun and cold blood.”
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Jane Yolen. Tachyon, $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-61696-273-9
This slight collection contains several very strong stories but is weakened by its overarching theme: all of the pieces are riffs on famous fairy tales, or on the lives of writers or famous historical personages, and there just isn’t enough...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Floyd Cooper, Illustrator Philomel Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22938-1
Yolen is pitch-perfect in her delivery of this tender tale of the friendship that blossoms between an elderly white woman and an African American girl. Miz Berlin is well known in her neighborhood for the long and slow walks she takes around the...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Doug Cushman, Illustrator Little Simon $8.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-689-84838-4
The animals aboard Jane Yolen's Animal Train, illus. by Doug Cushman, teach colors, shapes, numbers and opposites. Die-cut like a locomotive, the board book's playful verse encourages youngsters to look beneath liftable flaps (""Porter Seal soon/
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Jane Yolen, Author, Melissa Sweet, Illustrator , illus. by Melissa Sweet. Harcourt/Gulliver $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-205114-3
To a tiny bear, it seems like the world is made for the "great big bears"—like his parents—who survey their domain from "great big chairs." The cub's older brother has it pretty good, too. No high chairs "with...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Adam Stemple, Author . Tor/ Starscape $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1158-0
The tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin gets a modern makeover at the hands of this mother-son team. Calcephony McCallan (who goes by Callie, shortening the name given to her by her ex-hippie parents) finds out that the popular band, Brass Rat, is...
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Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple. Viking, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-01434-7
Yolen and Stemple—the mother-son team behind Troll Bridge, Pay the Piper, and B.U.G.—deliver a fast-paced adventure, first in a trilogy, which draws on fairy myth and lore. Aspen is a Seelie Prince who has spent half his life living as a royal...
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Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple, illus. by Orion Zangara. Graphic Universe, $8.99 paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-5124-1155-3
Craig McGowan has little to believe in as a street urchin in 1930s Edinburgh, but just when he’s ready to give up and throw himself from the top of a church, he meets Silex, a demon trapped in a gargoyle statue who runs a crime-solving operation,...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Ted Lewin, Illustrator Philomel Books $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-21612-1
From its arresting cover of a vee of geese stretching across the ``earless / face of the moon'' to the songbirds that sit ``along the wires / like scattered notes / on lines of music'' on the last page, this soaring collection of poems about birds...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Derek Anderson. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9032-1
Dragons are just not morning people. They “bumble” and “tumble” out of bed, and the doughty little knight who is their master risks life and limb just getting them to “Put their jammies in the hamper.” But with a little patience and a delicious...
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Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple, illus. by Sam Williams. S&S/Little Simon, $9.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0833-3
Fancy Nancy in her attitude, Charles Schulz's Pigpen in her execution, this mother-daughter team's heroine has a charm all her own. Princess Pig hustles to get her home ready for her "big tea party," but she can't escape her species' reputation for...
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Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple, illus. by Helen Cann, Barefoot, $21.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-84686-219-9
The mother-daughter team behind The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories retells eight folktales featuring traditional dances. A young shepherd finds that animals and humans alike are compelled to flamenco dance when he plays a mysterious flute; Tam O'Sha
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Jane Yolen, Author, Heidi E. Y. Stemple, Author, Brooke Dyer, Illustrator , illus. by Brooke Dyer. HarperCollins $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-081560-8
Dyer (Mama Always Comes Home
), herself the daughter of illustrator Jane Dyer, joins the mother-daughter team of Yolen and Stemple (previously paired for The Salem Witch Trials
) to celebrate the joys of a long, cozy wintertime snooze. With a...
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Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple, illus. by Anne-Sophie Lanquetin, S&S, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8018-6
Yolen, her daughter/occasional collaborator Stemple (The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories), and Lanquetin (Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins) turn noblesse oblige on its head with this tribute to girl power. "Some princesses roll around,/ wrestling on the...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Mike Cavallaro, Illustrator . Roaring Brook/First Second $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-59643279-6
Aliera Carstairs attends a small high school in New York City and feels like an outcast in its crowds of cliques, jocks, goths, nerds, and preps. She's always been a loner and doesn't know where she belongs. The only control she has is...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Mike Cavallaro. Roaring Brook/First Second, $15.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-59643-619-0
Yolen’s smart, introspective, foil-wielding Aliera Carstairs returns, this time to thwart the Dark Lord’s plot to kidnap her beloved cousin. The Dark Lord wants the Defender’s weapon—that’s Aliera’s sword, the one with the hokey-looking jewel at the
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Jane Yolen, Author, Terri Windling, Editor Tor Books $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-85135-4
Windling's Fairy Tale series has produced several excellent fantasy novels inspired by classic fairy tales. This is one of the series's most ambitious efforts, and only a writer as good as Yolen ( Sister Light, Sister Dark ) could bring it off....
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Jane Yolen, Author, David Shannon, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201389-9
PW's starred review described this ""stirring"" book as a look at the dark underside of Christopher Columbus's adventure. ""The message is blunt but the language in which it is couched is vintage Yolen, lyrical and impassioned. Shannon's visionary...
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Jane Yolen, Author, David Shannon, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201885-6
Based on a 1720 incident in which two female pirates escaped a death sentence because they were pregnant, this rollicking ballad is ""offbeat and grimly amusing,"" said PW. Ages 4-12. (Aug.)
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Jane Yolen, Author, David Shannon, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-200710-2
This rollicking ballad springs from an actual incident: captured in 1720 aboard the sloop Vanity when their dilatory mates ""below, did drink and sport,"" the ``pirate queens'' Anne Bonney and Mary Reade escaped hanging because they were pregnant....
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Jane Yolen, Author, David Shannon, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-269953-6
Yolen and Shannon, previously paired for the rollicking Ballad of the Pirate Queens, turn solemn in this verse-and-picture tour of sacred places around the world. Visiting 12 sites, the book attempts, with mixed results, an empathetic introduction...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Nancy Carpenter, Illustrator , illus. by Nancy Carpenter. Philomel $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24005-8
Caldecott Medalist Yolen (Owl Moon
) turns her attention to the poet Emily Dickinson and her young nephew, Thomas Gilbert (“Gib”), expanding on some real-life interactions between them to explore the role of poetry in human life. Gib...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Raul Colon, Illustrator, Jane Yolen, As Told by Harcourt Children's Books $20 (128p) ISBN 978-0-15-216391-4
In a companion to her Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls, Jane Yolen collects and retells 14 folktales focused on boys in Mightier than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys, illus. by Raul Col""n, from Afghanistan,
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Jane Yolen, Author, Hiroe Nakata, Illustrator Little Simon $7.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-689-85057-8
Just right for a square-format board book, Jane Yolen's original text filled with cozy rhymes combines with Hiroe Nakata's comforting watercolors in A Time for Naps, as a toddler tucks stuffed animals in bed, then settles in for a nap of her own
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jim Burke, Illustrator , illus. by Jim Burke. Little, Brown $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-97159-1
Among picture books commemorating the centennial of Kitty Hawk, Yolen's is unusual for appropriating Katharine Wright, Orville and Wilbur's younger sister, as its narrator. This Katharine, however, is not the protagonist but the chronicler...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jim Burke, Illustrator , illus. by Jim Burke. Philomel $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-24661-6
How great does a baseball player have to be for his baseball card to sell for nearly $3 million? With emphatic prose and oil paintings that echo the perspectives and palettes of vintage photography and commercial art, Yolen and Burke amply prove...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by David Small, Philomel, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-25292-1
When her grief-stricken, widowed father decides to leave Boston to be a pioneer farmer on the Nebraska prairie, Elsie wonders if she'll ever feel at home in the world again. Overwhelmed by "the grass and sky and silence," Elsie cloisters herself in...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Barbara Cooney, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-96899-7
Like Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House and the Provensens' Shaker Lane , this felicitous marriage of text and art portrays the impact of modernization on one community. Yolen's gently poetic text tells how the young Sally Jane witnesses the...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jason Stemple, Photographer , photos by Jason Stemple. Boyds Mills/Wordsong $17.95 (31p) ISBN 978-1-59078-624-6
Pairing lyrical poems and crisp photography to great effect, this collection is a gem. Each poem contains Yolen's response to a series of photographs that portray living things reflected in water. Stemple's photographs startle the reader...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jason Stemple, Photographer Boyds Mills Press $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-904-0
Jane Yolen offers 14 odes to birds in Wild Wings: Poems for Young People, photographed by her son, Jason Stemple, the team behind Color Me a Rhyme: Nature Poems for Young People. In a pattern repeated throughout the volume, the opening spread ...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jason Stemple, Photographer Boyds Mills Press $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59078-098-5
Jane Yolen and her son, Jason Stemple, team up for their third collaboration in poetry and photos, Least Things: Poems About Small Natures. Tiny creatures such as tree frogs and grasshoppers come to light through the most economical of forms-haik
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Jane Yolen, photos. by Jason Stemple, Boyds Mills/Wordsong, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59078-830-1
The team behind A Mirror to Nature again pairs striking, full-color photographs of birds with spirited poems in a full range of styles and forms. A haiku for a kingfisher speaks tenderly to the quirky, diminutive bird ("Hey, girl, fish lover,/...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Jason Stemple. Boyds Mills/Wordsong, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59078-862-2
The team behind A Mirror to Nature and Wild Wings offers another striking pairing of poems and photographs about the natural world, in this case the mysterious lives of insects. Each poem (and photograph) is a careful observation of its subject,...
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Jane Yolen, Author, John Schoenherr, Illustrator Philomel Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21457-8
A girl and her father go owling on a moonlit winter night near the farm where they live. Bundled tight in wool clothes, they trudge through snow ""whiter than the milk in a cereal bowl''; here and there, hidden in ink-blue shadows, a fox, raccoon,...
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Jane Yolen, Author, John Wallner, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-267140-2
Award-winning author Yolen offers a beautiful book of poetry that sings old songs in new ways. The challenging language, rich in metaphor and rhythm, is matched perfectly by Wallner's stunning drawings, showing the dragonfly with its ""veins like...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Lauren Mills, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-96900-0
Yolen, one of the most prolific writers for children these days (see preceding review), is back again--this time with an alphabet book. Library and bookstore shelves may groan under the weight of such volumes, but writers and illustrators never seem
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Jane Yolen, Author, Vladimir Vagin, Illustrator , illus. by Vladimir Vagin. HarperCollins $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028538-8
This gracefully structured picture book introduces readers to the famous Firebird
ballet (choreographed by George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's music) and the Russian folklore that inspired it. Accomplished hunter Prince Ivan becomes lost in...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Vladimir Vagin, Illustrator , illus. by Vladimir Vagin. HarperCollins $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028536-4
Two strong females dominate this Baba Yaga tale from the team behind The Firebird. Faithful to Russian tradition, the Baba Yaga featured here flies about in an enormous mortar and pestle, searching for children to capture and bring home to eat. In...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-275480-8
In this lyrical tale drawn from Blackfoot legend, an old man recounts the origin of his name, He-who-loves-horses. He describes the coming of horses, ``Sky Dogs,'' from across the plains, and the wonder and awe he and his people felt when they first
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Jane Yolen, Author, Kathryn Brown, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-225350-9
Just as children often wonder about the earth beneath their feet, the littlest mole here sets out to discover the world ``Up Above.'' When Eeny is told by her sisters that there is light as well as darkness, winter and summer too, she tries to...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jane Dyer, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $15.45 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-96894-2
This elegant book may well leave a lasting impression on readers of all ages. With vivid imagery, Yolen's (Grandad Bill's Song) flowing narrative easily establishes the dreamy mood of an old-fashioned fairy tale. She introduces a bereaved king and...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jane Dyer, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-96897-3
Like an old Scottish ballad, Yolen's poem about the friendship between a faerie boy and human girl is told with a stately tone and compelling melody. ""He was a child of faerie folk,/ A child of sky and air,/ And she was a child of humankind,/ Of...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Allan Eitzen, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $16.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-56397-222-5
Beginning with a lethargic anteater and ending with an African zebra, Yolen (Owl Moon) rounds up an ``eXtraordinary'' assembly of poems. She offsets the inclusion of some predictable old chestnuts-Alfred Tennyson's ``The Eagle,'' William Blake's ``Th
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Jane Yolen, Author, Dennis Nolan, Illustrator , illus. by Dennis Nolan. Dutton $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-46955-1
"Once upon a time, a baby was born on a bed that was made from a coffin platform," begins this illuminating picture-book–biography of Denmark's favorite storyteller, which deftly blends Andersen's real life events with his...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Dennis Nolan, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-224131-5
Yolen's new fable, redolent with myths ageless and archetypal, strikes at the heart. Dove Isabeau, so-called because she always wears dove's colors of gray or white, is bereft at her mother's death. Her father, Lord Darnton, marries a witch--with ``e
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Jane Yolen, Author, Dennis Nolan, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201567-1
""Yolen is in top form in this polished, ardent retelling,"" said PW; ""Nolan's sophisticated watercolors... provocatively blend reality and fantasy."" All ages. (Sept.)
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Jane Yolen, Author, Dennis Nolan, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201505-3
An evil stepmother turns lovely Isabeau into a hideous dragon and a prince saves her. Ages 8-12. (Mar.)
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Jane Yolen, Author, Dennis Nolan, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-297850-1
Yolen is in top form here in this polished, ardent retelling of the tragic Greek legend of Daedalus and his son Icarus. Banished from his beloved Athens for killing his nephew, the proud craftsman and inventor Daedalus finally lands on the island of
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Jane Yolen, Author, Charles Mikolaycak, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-15-249903-7
Yolen and Mikolaycak have worked their separate charms and created a songbook so soothing it hums. The selection of lullabies includes the German ""Brahms' Lullaby,'' the Welsh ``All Through the Night,'' a black spiritual ``By'm Bye,'' a Yiddish...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Charles Mikolaycak, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-15-284261-1
In Yolen's vibrant prose, this retelling of an ancient Scottish ballad leaps from the page in riveting strokes. Here, in all its moonswept mystery, is the story of how Jennet, red-headed daughter of the MacKenzie clan, rescues Tam Lin, the man she...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator , illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic/Blue Sky $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-24100-7
Those boisterous, larger-than-life stars of How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
are back, but this time they're a little under the weather. "What if a dinosaur catches the flu?/ Does he whimper and whine in between each Atchoo?" In a...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator , illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic/Blue Sky $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-24102-1
Echoing the tone and look of How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?
and How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?
, these collaborators' latest guide to dino etiquette offers a jaunty comedy of errors, er, table manners. In the first half, against spare...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator , illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic/Blue Sky $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-14314-1
Several series grow with new picture books this fall.
How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?
Jane Yolen
, illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic/Blue Sky
, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-14314-1
The latest in Yolen and Teague's long-running series features...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator , illus. by Mark Teague Scholastic/Blue Sky $6.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-545-15354-6
In this board book spinoff of their long-running series, Yolen and Teague’s lovable dinosaurs bully and ignore their pets: “How does a dinosaur play with her cat?/ Does she throw pillows at it and act like a brat?” After other...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (Scholastic) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-31681-1
Set to a lilting bedtime beat, this rollicking rumpus of a tale ups the humor ante in a familiar scenario by substituting dinosaurs for children: ""How does a dinosaur say good night when Papa comes in to turn off the light?"" In a series of snappy...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator Scholastic en Espanol $5.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-31735-1
PreS-Gr 2-What do dinosaurs do when it's time for bed? Do they scream and yell? Lash their tails? Ask for pony rides? The answer to each question in this sweet bedtime romp is a resounding ""No!"" Dinosaurs, it seems, want a kiss and a hug, a ...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (AZ) $6.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-439-64949-0
Favorite characters and titles are now available in board book editions. Dinos delight in acting like toddlers in original board books starring the prehistoric heroes first introduced in How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark
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Jane Yolen, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator Blue Sky Press (AZ) $6.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-439-64950-6
Favorite characters and titles are now available in board book editions. Dinos delight in acting like toddlers in original board books starring the prehistoric heroes first introduced in How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $6.99 (14p) ISBN 978-0-545-15353-9
As in their previous books, Yolen and Teague delicately nudge readers toward appropriate behavior using rhetorical questions and loveably indecorous dinosaurs. At a birthday party, does a dinosaur child "finger the frosting,/ lick all the ice cream?"
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-41678-8
Continuing to follow the successful blueprint of the long-running How Do Dinosaurs books, Yolen and Teague pose the possibility of dinosaurs wreaking merry havoc on Christmas Eve. Uproarious
hypotheticals—do dinosaurs rip open presents, “shake up...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-41677-1
Yolen and Teague score a winner with this playful Chanukah story brought to life with bright and engaging illustrations. Each page poses a question of how a dinosaur would behave during the eight days of Hanukkah with a cute rhyme like, “Does he...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-14315-8
Yes, even dinosaurs have bad days, and a few of them are at their worst in this addition to Yolen and Teague’s popular series. It’s always a delight to watch Teague’s dinosaurs misbehave, and that’s especially true when they’re throwing tantrums: an
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-24104-5
Throughout the How Do Dinosaurs series, prehistoric carnivores and herbivores have showed off some less-than-perfect behavior in modern settings. Now Yolen and Teague take the idea a bit farther: what about when a young dino (or human) is acting in...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark Teague. Blue Sky, $6.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-545-94120-4
Yolen and Teague return to a subject they covered in their 2000 picture book, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, as an unusual group of dinosaurs—concavenator, majungasaurus, and sauropelta, among them—demonstrate how one should and shouldn’t behave...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Ruth Tietjen Councell, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $17.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-56397-484-7
Sixteen traditional stories are retold with a contemporary flair by a master storyteller with wit, humor and panache. Yolen has culled stories from all over the globe (e.g., India, Nigeria, and from the Pueblo people), but the emphasis is on the...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Ruth Tietjen Councell, Illustrator Philomel Books $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-22501-7
As with Owl Moon , Yolen will dazzle readers with these 19 poems about the moon. Councell, ( Handel and the Famous Sword Swallower of Halle ), meanwhile, contributing a palette of muted blues, purples, and grays, proves an effective counterpart....
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Jane Yolen, Author, Li Ming, Illustrator Puffin Books $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-14-055891-3
Merlin tells young Arthur a tale of a boy who prophesies a dragon duel. Dramatic oil paintings match the story's epic scale. Ages 5-up. (Oct.)
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Jane Yolen, Author, Li Ming, Illustrator Dutton Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-65244-1
Yolen and Ming (previously paired for Merlin and the Dragons) mine Greek myth to retell the story of Bellerophon, the boy who tames a flying horse. Yolen recounts the tale through the voice of a beggar--who, as it transpires in the end, may or may...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Stephane Jorisch, Illustrator , illus. by Stéphane Jorisch. Simon & Schuster $15.99 (28p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4895-7
While cheerful, this book is also a memorial to Yolen's late husband. Freely drawn by Jorisch in pen and watercolor, an effortlessly confident father guides his mop-headed child through a series of adventures. On an amusement ride, he points...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Anne Hunter, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201458-2
In hushed, liquid language, this lullaby-poem whispers of ""the velvet night"" and its soundless stirrings. As ""a big moon balloon/ floats silent over trees,"" moth wings flutter, furry things ""creep through sleep"" and owls ""write silent...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Aesop, Author, Karen Barbour, Author Scholastic Inc. $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-47895-3
Yolen and Barbour prove a dynamite pairing in this splashy picture book. Here they jazz up a baker's dozen of Aesop's much-loved fables, most of which are familiar (""The Boy Who Cried Wolf,"" ""The Grasshopper and the Ants,"" ""The Lion and the...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator , illus. by Wendy Anderson Halperin. Candlewick $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1697-7
Gentle rhythms give Yolen's rainy-day tale the feel of a narrative poem. "It's raining," begins Alison Isabelle. "I watch the drops slide down the window,/ leaving trails for my fingers to follow." Stuck inside, big sister...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Bruce Coville, Author, Bruce Coville, Joint Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-201767-5
On the heels of Paula Danziger and Ann Martin's P.S. Longer Letter Later (Children's Forecasts, Feb. 16) comes another novel (on a very different subject) co-written by a pair of popular YA authors. The two alternating narrators, Marina and Jed, are
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Jane Yolen, Author, David Christiana, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-231701-0
Yolen reaches new heights in this flawless tale. Patterned after the story of Job, it concerns one Griselle, a lace maker in Paris of long ago. Reports of her goodness so enrage the gargoyles on a nearby cathedral that they place a wager one...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Laura Regan, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23221-3
Jane Yolen turns her eye towards the Everglades in Welcome to the River of Grass, the fourth installment of her environmentally themed collaboration with illustrator Laura Regan. From the start readers are invited into a world of rare beauty (""W
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Jane Yolen, Author, Heidi Elisabet y. Stemple, Author, Rebecca Guay-Mitchell, Illustrator Barefoot Books $19.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-84148-229-3
Readers can dance through the pages of The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories by Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple, illus. by Rebecca Guay. The compendium contains seven stories from across the centuries and continents (including ""Swan Lake,"" ""The...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Heidi Elisabet y. Stemple, Author, Roger Roth, Illustrator , illus. by Roger Roth. S&S/Aladdin $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-85122-3
PW
said that this tale of a crewless ship, the Mary Celeste, found adrift in 1872, "may well have amateur sleuths lying awake at night." Ages 6-up. (July)
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Jane Yolen, Author, Heidi Elisabet y. Stemple, Author, Roger Roth, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82321-3
The third volume in the Unsolved Mystery from History series, Roanoke: The Lost Colony by Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple, illus. by Roger Roth, once again invites readers to use their detective skills to solve a puzzle from the past.
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Jane Yolen, Author, Heidi Elisabet y. Stemple, Author, Roger Roth, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-81079-4
This first book in a new series of unsolved mysteries may well have amateur sleuths lying awake at night. When the crewless ship Mary Celeste was found adrift in 1872, there were no signs of pirates, mutiny, cholera or weather damage, and its cargo...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Heidi Elisabet y. Stemple, Author, Roger Roth, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-81080-0
Another addition to the Unsolved Mystery from History series, The Wolf Girls by Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple, illus. by Roger Roth, urges readers to act as detectives. The volume presents the evidence, then asks aspiring detectives
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Jane Yolen, Author, Bernie Fuchs, Author, Bernie Fuchs, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-96887-4
Work of the hands, faith and community spirit are constants that eight-year-old Matthew has always known growing up on a Pennsylvania Amish farm. These things make all the difference when lightning burns his family's barn to the ground. When a barn-r
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Jane Yolen, Author, Bagram Ibatoulline, Illustrator , illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline. Simon & Schuster $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3770-8
In an autumn cornfield, a threadbare scarecrow leaps high into the sky to dance across the darkening landscape. The pastoral evening images evoke a bygone era, and the descriptions of the scarecrow's excursion are both nostalgic and visceral. &#
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Jane Yolen, Author, Victoria Chess, Illustrator , illus. by Victoria Chess. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-216341-9
This amphibian Emperor's New Clothes is "likely to please," said PW. Ages 5-8. (Apr.)
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Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y., Adam, and Jason Stemple, illus. by Jui Ishida. National Geographic Kids, $24.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4263-1725-5
Yolen and her children present 19 true stories about unusual animals. While anchored in reality, the vibrant storytelling and Ishida’s bold, posterlike acrylics occasionally invoke the feeling of folktales, as in the story of a flock of sacred geese
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Jane Yolen, Author, Daniel Baxter, Illustrator , illus. by Daniel Baxter. Chronicle/Handprint $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8118-6683-5
Although the title suggests sentimentality, that notion disappears with the first look inside this snappy square-format book. Yolen's jaunty rhymes are short and sweet; debut illustrator Baxter's droll, cartoonlike pictures practically...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Gary Kelley. Creative Editions, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56846-215-8
These 16 sonnets grew out of Yolen's lifelong love for Dickinson, who is a neighbor of sorts—her ancestral home is near Yolen's. Written in the voices of Dickinson, her sister, and others, the sonnets are true to Dickinson's sharp eye and quick wit:
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Jane Yolen, Author, Tom McKeveny, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-385-29587-1
The final volume in the Pit Dragon trilogywhich began with Dragon's Bloodconcludes a riveting saga that intertwines elements of fantasy and science fiction. The planet of Austar, whose climate and history have much in common with Australia's, serves
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Bob Marstall. Cornell Lab Publishing Group (Legato, dist.), $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-943645-02-2
First in a planned series (a portion of proceeds will benefit the Cornell Lab of Ornithology), this dreamy story follows a child and his dog on a stroll by the sea. Writing in characteristically well-
structured verse, Yolen (the How Do Dinosaurs...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Melissa B. Mathis, Illustrator Philomel Books $16.99 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-21802-6
Verse (often verging on doggerel) conveys this forced narrative about a boy who asks members of his family, ``What did you do on the day Grandad died?'' Mama, for example, responds, ``I looked in the mirror, and then, son, I lied. / I said to myself
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Jane Yolen, Author, Bonnie V. Ingber, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (133p) ISBN 978-0-15-298132-7
The instant Henry casually ``mentions wizardry to his dear ma,'' she packs him off to Wizard's Hall, with little more than a change of clothes and the advice that, whatever he might encounter, ``it only matters that you try.'' Once at Wizard's Hall,
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jane Yolan, Author, Bruce Degen, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22189-7
These prolific, versatile collaborators ( Dinosaur Dances ; the Commander Toad series) here offer a disarming tale, populated by a cast with all the zest of the best nursery rhyme creations. Fashioned from bits of hay, Mouse's house sits in the...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Yolen, Author, Laura Regan, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22335-8
In the current freshet of rainforest books, Yolen's rises to the surface not as a mere tour guide, but a gracious host to earth's ``dark green, / light green, / emerald green / bright green / copper green, / blue green, / ever-new green house.'' The
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Jane Yolen, Author, David Wilgus, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (149p) ISBN 978-0-15-209888-9
Dragon-lovers and maybe even dinophiles will unite to celebrate Yolen's (the Dragon's Blood trilogy) virtuosic poems and stories about dragons. Some new, others previously published, the entries cover a spectrum of genres: tales of heroic battles,...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Robert J. Harris, Author . Puffin $7.99 (390p) ISBN 978-0-698-11918-5
PW
said that this lengthy first-person narrative that centers on "La Jardinière," one of the court jesters to Mary Queen of Scots, "will appeal to fans of historical sagas." Ages 10-up. (Nov.)
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Jane Yolen, Author, Robert J. Harris, Author HarperTrophy $5.99 (248p) ISBN 978-0-06-440847-9
PW called this debut title in the launch of the Young Heroes series ""a rollicking adventure""; it stars the 13-year-old prince of Ithaca, who meets his match (and future wife) in a Spartan captive. ""The new spin here is that Penelope...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Bruce Degen, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (39p) ISBN 978-0-399-21629-9
The terpsichorean dinosaurs in this collection of whimsical poems allemande left and pirouette in high style. Although Yolen's ( Owl Moon ; The Three Bears Rhyme Book ) verses often scan raggedly and require no small knowledge of fossils in order to
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Jane Yolen, Author, Robert J. Harris, Author, Robert Harris, Illustrator . HarperTrophy $5.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-440848-6
Yolen teams up with Harris in a continuation of their collaboration on the Young Heroes series, with a second adventure starring an Amazonian princess who undergoes a dangerous journey, to take her baby brother to his father in Troy. Ages 8-12. (Ap
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Jane Yolen, Author, Mora Francisco, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17 (137p) ISBN 978-0-15-200211-4
Thoughtful Jerold and the more reckless, appropriately named Gerund are two boys living in similar houses, somehow in parallel universes, in the dead of winter. As he does every year, Herne the Hunter, Lord of Winter, is battling the Queen of Light,
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Jane Yolen, Author, Kathryn Brown, Author, Kathryn Brown, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $6 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-201007-2
A mole sets out to explore the world ""Up Above."" In a starred review, PW praised the ""inventive"" text and ""gracefully droll"" watercolors. Ages 4-8. (Apr.)
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Jane Yolen, Author, Laurel Molk, Author, Laurel Molk, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $14.45 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-96892-8
With a nod to ``The Night Before Christmas,'' Yolen introduces a group of sleeping mice that dream not of sugarplums, but of a Halloween ``fancy-dress ball.'' The rodents never get the chance to dance in the moonlight, however, for a band of...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-261686-1
Whimsy abounds in this tale of a porcine butler who solves crimes in his off hours. Ages 4-8. (Feb.)
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-286386-9
The wonderfully paired team of Yolen and Dyer (Piggins) has created another winner with this collection of 15 rhymed poems narrated by the smallest bear of the familiar three bears story. This insouciant, bright-eyed cub tells about the things that...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205120-4
``Just one story,'' pleads Baby Bear, and then he'll go to sleep. When Goldie falls for what has to be the oldest line known to youngsters, ``just one'' story soon spins into a whole picture book-full. Each of the stuffed animals in Baby Bear's room-
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-261535-2
Droll and decorous illustrations enhance this charmingly bucolic excursion, a sort of Wind in the Willows crossed with Masterpiece Theater. Ages 4-8. (Feb.)
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200932-8
The bear family introduced in Yolen's and Dyer's Baby Bear's Bedtime Book and The Three Bears Rhyme Book return in rhyming poems celebrating 15 holidays. Written primarily in the voice of Baby Bear, Yolen's short, bouncy verses can be humorous and...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201564-0
This collection of 15 poems, ranging from the expected (""Porridge"") to the unexpected (""How to Bathe a Bear""--in eight easy steps), is inspired by a friendship between Goldilocks and the three bears; candy-colored portraits depict the characters
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Jane Yolen, Author, Jane Dyer, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $6.7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-96939-0
In a starred review of this original fairy tale about an orphaned child, PW said, ""Yolen gracefully brings her tale full circle, revealing the surprise identity of Aurea's mother and, refreshingly, rewarding her heroine with something other than a...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Jane Dyer. S&S/Wiseman, $19.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4898-8
“We both believe that literature begins in the cradle,” write Yolen and Dyer at the beginning of this collection of 75 brief but vivid poems. Most are originals from Yolen (10 poems are credited to Mother Goose), and she provides many options for...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Greg Couch, Author, Greg Couch, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-81095-4
Called the ""Hitless Wonder"" and ""Danny the Whiffer"" by his teammates, Danny retreats to bed after another dispiriting round of strikeouts, ""watching the moon round the bases of the sky"" and wishing that he could hit the ball ""just once."" In...
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The team behind last year's The Queen's Own Fool
launches the Young Heroes series with a rollicking adventure starring a 13-year-old Odysseus, prince of Ithaca, who meets his match (and future wife) in Spartan captive Penelope. Drawing on...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Robert J. Harris, Joint Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-028736-8
Yolen teams up with Robert J. Harris in a continuation of their collaboration on the Young Heroes series with a second adventure starring an Amazonian princess, Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons. ( Mar.)
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Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple, illus. by Melissa Sweet. Boyds Mills, $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59078-923-0
Frequent mother-daughter collaborators Yolen and Stemple, whose previous books include Not All Princesses Dress in Pink, offer a gentle rhyming bedtime story that spotlights 14 birds’ nesting habits and habitats. At bedtime, a human mother lulls her
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Jane Yolen, Author, Heidi Stemple, Author, Heidi Elisabet y. Stemple, Joint Author Viking Books $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-88907-5
With more than 200 books to her name, popular storyteller Yolen (editor of Favorite Folktales Around the World) can be forgiven for one that doesn't quite measure up. The subtitle notwithstanding, this collection compiled with her grown daughter,...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Heidi Elisabet y. Stemple, Joint Author Boyds Mills Press $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56397-886-9
Mother-daughter team Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple use an inventive (and humorous) format in Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People, illus. by Gil Ashby. Daughter addresses mother in a poem on the left, and mother addresses daughter...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Lynn Norton Parker, Illustrator Little Simon $7.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-689-84832-2
A bunny with fuzzy pink ears and satiny pajamas graces the cover of Bedtime for Bunny: A Book to Touch and Feel by Jane Yolen, illus. by Lynn Norton Parker. Inside, lilting rhyme will help readers get set for sleep, too. A soft blue blanket...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Kelly Murphy. Candlewick, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4201-3
Swinging a few branches across the evolutionary tree, Yolen turns her attention from the misbehaving dinosaurs of the How Do Dinosaurs... series to garden-variety monsters that leave school en masse around 3 P.M. Murphy's acrylic and oil spreads...
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Jane Yolen, Author, Robert Harris, Author, Robert J. Harris, Joint Author Philomel Books $19.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-23380-7
""La Jardini re,"" one of the court jesters to Mary Queen of Scots, is the subject of this collaborative offering from veteran Yolen (Off We Go! and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, reviewed above) and Scottish debut author Harris. The resulting...
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Book Wish Foundation. Putnam, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-25454-3
Short stories that revolve around wishes form this volume created to raise money for Book Wish Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to build libraries for Darfur refugees living in Chad. Mixing poems, stories, and even a comic, the book...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Celia Lowenthal. Charlesbridge Moves, $17.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-62354-473-7
In this lively historical fantasy set in 1890 Fife, Scotland, 14-year-old Cat Douglas is training as a member of monster hunting society the Royal & Ancient to defend her home from the creatures that terrorize the land. As the first girl to serve in
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Jane Yolen. Philomel, $17.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-25778-0
Yolen (The Devil’s Arithmetic) returns to the horrors of WWII and the Holocaust in this expansive, eloquent novel about siblings Chaim and Gittel Abromowitz, 14-year-old twins connected by a secret language and a fierce love for each other. Their...
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Jane Yolen. Tachyon, $15.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-61696-306-4
Yolen (The Emerald Circus) has put together a thought-provoking collection of reprinted and original works that explore every aspect of fairy tales. Some tell old tales from a different point of view: wolves from many stories share their...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Paolo Domeniconi. Reycraft, $18.95 (36p) ISBN 978-1-4788-6856-9
In this classic-feeling fairy tale, an elderly giant with pale skin and a long white beard has grown weary of his reclusive life on a mountaintop overlooking the ocean. “He was tired of pretending by himself,” writes Yolen (the How Do Dinosaurs Say...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Alida Massari. Kar-Ben, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-72842-426-2
“Before there was rain,/ Mrs. Noah kept injured birds,” writes Yolen (Elefantastic!), immediately drawing readers into this poetic and visually striking variation on the ark story. Portrayed with light brown skin and flowing white hair, Mrs. Noah...
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Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple, illus. By Matt Phelan. Zonderkidz, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-310-75642-2
In a wistful story that honors Neil Armstrong, the moon is feeling lonely: “No one below was singing to her. No one was sending up rockets or writing poems about her.” But below, a boy at the seashore sees the moon and senses its unhappiness: “So he
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Wendell Minor. Charlesbridge, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58089-719-8
Inspired by the life of William “Billy” Franklin, son of Benjamin Franklin, this first-person account conveyed in lengthy free verse opens in Philadelphia, 1739, when rowdy Billy is eight years old; eventually, a new tutor inspires a love of reading,
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Jen Corace. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4613-1
Yolen (the How Do Dinosaurs series) captures the essence of inner strength in this sensitive portrayal of a girl and the bear who always accompanies her. “I wear my bear on the outside./ It’s like wearing a suit of armor,” begins the self-assured...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Brett Helquist. Chronicle, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4521-7681-9
Yolen (Eeny Up Above) writes in an afterword of learning about a Broadway producer who bought an elephant, orphaned in Zimbabwe in 1982, and built a circus around it (“Because I have always wanted an elephant,” reads a quote). This variation on that
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Elizabeth O. Dulemba. Little Simon, $9.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-5344-4317-4
Yolen’s gentle rhyming board book features a mother and child mermaid who explore, play, and sleep in their underwater world. In Dulemba’s light, chalky illustrations, the mermaids have dappled orange tails and blue hair—the mother mermaid’s long...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Christine Davenier. Holt/Ottaviano, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-12808-9
Yolen and Davenier portray Dickinson as a small child who “tiptoes into Father’s study,/ being quiet as dust” and finds “a scrap of paper” and a “gnawed pencil stub, too... Perhaps, she thinks, I will make a poem.” Historical details—her siblings,...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Khoa Le. Kar-Ben, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5415-4400-0
Many families have added a “Miriam’s cup” to their seder table in recognition of the important role played by the sister of Moses. With luxuriant visuals and rhythmic, emotionally intense language, Le and Yolen recount the siblings’ backstory....
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Jane Yolen. Tachyon, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61696-340-8
Nebula Award winner Yolen follows How to Fracture a Fairy Tale with another, slightly more sinister collection of delightfully dark fairy tales. Each of the 16 stories is coupled with a companion poem and fascinating story notes that allow readers...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Nicole Wong. Magination, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4338-4153-8
Rhyming, simile-laden first-person lines describe a child’s quietude in a softly joyous picture book that traces the experience of preferring noiselessness. Self-describing as “quiet as mud,” a gap-toothed child with pale skin shares family members’
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Alexandra Badiu. Albert Whitman, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8075-6291-8
Yolen presents a slice of American library history with this day-in-the-life tale of an Appalachian horseback librarian. Traveling with her book-carting steed, pale-skinned Anna Mary—“rhymes with library”—crisscrosses “the backwoods of Kentucky”...
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Jane Yolen and Maddison Stemple-Piatt, illus. by Priscilla Burris. Magination, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4338-3684-8
An ode to dancing grandmothers from a range of backgrounds, this picture book celebrates the fun that Nana creates, whether she’s shake-a-shaking, shimmying, or doing the salsa. Yolen and her first grandchild, Stemple-Piatt, who both trained in...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Kathryn Brown. Crocodile, $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62371-705-6
Yolen returns to the snug hole of siblings Eeny, Meeny, and Miney Mole in this comforting addition to the Eeny Series. While Meeny and Miney “loved the sweet darkness” of their burrow, where “dark was light, day was night, and all the seasons seemed
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Kathryn Brown. Crocodile, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62371-865-7
Eeny, a small, winsome mole, lives with older sisters Meeny and Miney in a cozy underground dwelling. Meeny and Miney are content with the home’s “deep darkness” and “familiar tidiness,” playing chamber music and bathing Eeny in a tea cup, but Eeny...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Anna Wilson. Cameron Kids, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-951836-40-5
A shared passion for birding leads two children to friendship—and later, to love—in Yolen and Wilson’s gentle picture book. New in town, Jon, a child portrayed with bushy red hair and light skin, has yet to connect with any kids (“You’d think he...
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Jane Yolen and Ryan G. Van Cleave, illus. by Luis San Vicente. Moonshower, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-63819-201-5
Yolen and Van Cleave give voice to bodily noises—from butts that “BOOM” to giggles and gasps—in a riotously silly poetry collection perfectly tuned to a toilet humor–loving audience. Describing incidental body noises such as “bumbling,/ crumbling,...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Anita Barghigiani. Kar-Ben, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-72848-645-1
Yolen centers fruit and veg in this retelling that, per an author’s note, is “modern midrash, a made-up story based on the Garden of Eden story in Torah.” The narrative begins conventionally, with God creating Eden, but takes a turn when the fruits—d
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Maya Shleifer. Chronicle, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-79721-214-2
Golems come to the rescue of a boy struggling to learn Hebrew in this spin on the folkloric. Blonde-haired Abi, a rabbi’s son, is often accidentally in trouble—for forgetting to pay for a bagel (“He was reading a comic book”), for saying a bad word (
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Laëtitia Devernay. Creative, $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-56846-382-7
Circles of varied sizes fill the pages of this expansive ode to the sense of possibility that can be found in a simple dot. The titular opening line leads to a rhythmic list of things that “this little dot” isn’t: “It’s not/ just a blot/ on a page,”
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Felishia Henditirto. Apples & Honey, $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-68115-639-2
Yolen draws on family lore to tell this rousing historical tale of a Jewish girl determined to read despite prevailing norms in her 1830s Russian shtetl. “More than anything in the world, more than anything in God’s universe, Rochel-Leah wanted to...
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Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple, illus. by John McKinley. Blue Sky, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-338-09881-5
The mother-daughter authors (You Nest Here with Me) introduce a class of monsters taught by a mummy cursed to speak only in verse. Mayhem erupts with the arrival of a new classmate, Tornado Jo, a fuzzy, round being that has a one-word vocabulary: “No
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Josée Masse. WordSong, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59078-936-0
Home to organisms, minerals, and buried treasure, the subterranean world is the subject of Yolen’s 21 poems, written in a variety of rhyming and nonrhyming forms. Masse’s crisp, gently textured mixed-media illustrations show a black girl and white...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Bob Marstall. CornellLab, $16.95 (36p) ISBN 978-1-943645-18-3
In Yolen and Marstall’s third title in the On Bird Hill and Beyond series, a dark-haired child spots a red starfish in the sand at Gull Beach, just before a seagull snatches it. “I followed quickly on the strand,/ My feet left footprints in the sand.
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Bob Marstall. Cornell Lab, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-943645-22-0
The team behind On Bird Hill returns with an intimate reflection on a small Massachusetts pond, where a placid scene can change at a moment’s notice. While On Bird Hill had a certain dreamlike quality, particularly in Marstall’s slightly surreal...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Jane Dyer. S&S/Wiseman, $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7172-6
Writing in a warm, welcoming voice peppered with humor, Yolen retells more than 30 myths, fairy tales, and fables. “Long, long ago, in far-off Africa, a great lion dozed in the sun,” begins “The Lion and the Mouse.” “Yes, he was proud, but all lions
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Jane Yolen et al. National Geographic Kids, $24.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4263-3181-7
This tribute to birds—created by Yolen and her three adult children—fuses poetry, prose, and ornithology. Topics include birds in literature and the arts, bird records and conservation, and bird watching. The crisp nature photography features dozens
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Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple. Tachyon, $14.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-61696-287-6
The monk Rasputin, Jewish revolutionary Bronstein, Tsarina Alexandra, and an unnamed bureaucrat share narrative responsibility in this fractured tale of a very alternate Russian Revolution. The Tsar owns black dragons, which he uses to terrorize the
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Edited by Cat Rambo and Jennifer Brozek. Caezik SF and Fantasy, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64710-042-1
Though largely entertaining, this anthology of 24 stories from women and nonbinary authors lacks editorial clarity and is burdered with some confusing inclusions. If it’s meant to reexamine gender roles, a story like Devin Miller’s “Photosynthesis,...
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Jane Yolen. Tachyon, $17.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61696-386-6
For this whimsical collection, World Fantasy Award winner Yolen (The Midnight Circus) brings together 11 fantastical shorts centered on romantic love. Yolen’s trademark fairy tale styling is on display throughout, with vivid, pithy prose animating...
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Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Semple, illus. by Jieting Chen. Rise x Penguin Workshop, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-75229-6
“When the days get shorter/ and the night sneaks in early,” write mother-daughter collaborators Yolen and Semple, “we celebrate the light.” The creators pay tribute to seven luminous holidays: Diwali, winter solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa,...
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Jane Yolen, illus. by Brooke
Boynton-Hughes. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5103-6
Yolen (the How Do Dinosaurs? series) traces via a single, lilting sentence the life of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), whose original stories are now considered cultural touchstones. Though he’s raised in part by a mother who...
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