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Born October 21, 1929 in Berkeley, California

Ursula K. Le Guin is a versatile American writer best known for her science fiction/fantasy works for young adults and independent readers but whose oeuvre covers poetry, plays, novels for adults, picture books, and collections of essays. She has also served as a translator of poetry and also as an editor of various science fiction anthologies. Her reputation as an author was established in the late sixties with the publication of A Wizard of Earthsea, the first in a putative trilogy of books which has since been supplemented with a further three books of prequels and bridging stories. Beyond the Earthsea series, she is also known for her Hainish Cycle series, Catwings series, and Annals of the Western Shore trilogy.

Ursula Le Guin's childhood set the stage for her later foray into science fiction and fantasy and her penchant for creating other, believable worlds filled with the sorts of conflicts and issues faced by different cultures on Earth. Ursula Kroeber was born October 21, 1929 in Berkeley, California to Alfred and Theodora Kroeber. She was the fourth of four children, with three older brothers. Her father was of a German immigrant family and a professor of anthropology. Her mother was a psychologist and writer. In fact she was the author of one of the saddest and tragic stories I have ever read. Visiting my aunt, a botanist in California, in the 1970's when I was in my early teens, she handed me a book, Ishi in Two Worlds. This was written by Le Guin's mother and is the tale of the last surviving Native American to live a traditional life until he made contact with Californians in 1911. He was taken under the care of Alfred Kroeber and Thomas Waterman at the University of California, San Francisco.

Ursula K. Le Guin grew up in Northern California, summering at a family cabin in the Napa Valley which was a gathering place of academics, anthropologists, etc. As she described it, it was "an old, tumble-down ranch in the Napa Valley . . . (and) a gathering place for scientists, writers, students, and California Indians. Even though I didn't pay much attention, I heard a lot of interesting, grown-up conversation."

Le Guin was a superior student and took her University degree from Radcliffe College in 1951 as a Phi Beta Kappa. Heeding her father's advice that she needed a marketable profession on which to count for a living, but perhaps reflecting a rarified intellectual upbringing, Le Guin then pursued a master's degree in Romance Literature at Columbia University. She became a faculty fellow there in 1952 before receiving a Fulbright fellowship to study in Paris in 1953. On her way to France, Le Guin fell in love with a fellow ship-board passenger, Charles Le Guin of Georgia and they wed six months later.

On their return from France they moved to Altanta, Georgia where Charles Le Guin finished up his doctorate at Emory University and had a teaching position. They moved on to the University of Idaho briefly in 1956, before finally settling in Portland, Oregon where they remain resident today having raised three children.

Le Guin was an enthusiastic writer and initially focused on poetry and short stories. Her first published work was a short story in Fantastic magazine in 1962. Her first book, Rocannon's World, did not appear until 1966 when she was 37 years old. Rocannon's World posited a galaxy that was colonized by the Hain (and is the foundation for the whole Hain Cycle of books). However, not having speed of light transportation, as the Hain moved to more and more remote planets, the already colonized planets lost contact with one another and evolved physically and culturally along different paths. When they later began to reconnect they discovered that they needed to navigate entirely different cultural norms from those with which they were familiar. This exploration of the "other" be it race or gender or class is the foundation of virtually all of Le Guin's works.

In the hands of even a marginally less gifted author, this sort of plot would be a recipe for tendentious disaster. With Le Guin it is an opportunity to see a world through different eyes. Her writing is an education not only in ideas, but in perspective. It is the plethora of ideas and the excitement of thinking things through to a logical end that so grips young adults. For, in one respect, they are also in the transition from seeing the world through the eyes of a child to a completely different perspective as adults. Anything that helps them understand differences is a plus.

Her reputation, beyond the specific books, is built on her demonstrated ability to mesh high-concept thinking with strong plots, well-developed characters and detailed descriptions which bring to life the alternate worlds which she has created. She bears some similarity to the English writer of the fifties and sixties, John Wyndham. Wyndham also wrote science fiction/fantasy. Like Le Guin, he focused not so much on the technology and the exuberance of the fantasy, but rather on what that technology or circumstances of alternate reality might mean for the human condition. Thus in one of his more famous books, The Midwich Cuckoos, which was predicated on a cohort of alien children born to human women, it is not so much their telepathic capabilities that drive the plot, but the mystery of a unitary whole made up of a collection of children. How do you deal with the individual child that is just an extension of the group of children?

They also shared similar issues with the craft of science fiction - Wyndham responding to the "galactic gangsters in space opera" prevalent in the early days of science fiction writing and Le Guin to "hardware and soldiers". They both introduced elements of feminist consideration in their writings - Wyndham with strong female characters and contemplations of gender roles (as in The Trouble with Lichen and how prolonged life spans might affect gender roles) and Le Guin with both characters and a revisiting of some of her works to later establish a different and greater role for female characters, as with the later three Earthsea books (Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea, and The Other Wind) which supplement the first trilogy and, in effect, even up the gender roles. A focus on the nature of gender roles is also present in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness where she tackles the implications of an androgynous hermaphroditic society.

Other British writers with whom she has been compared are J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis - and I would add Richard Adams (Shardik) - for their ability to render in sharp, believable detail whole other worlds. Tolkien and Adams, I think, are especially of a similar cloth in that the detail is not only in the written description. It is so concrete and thought out that it extends to comprehendible maps of the other world, just as Le Guin does with Earthsea.

Two other writers with whom I think she shares some characteristics are Susan Cooper and Madeleine L'Engle, primarily in terms of the strength of character development. Across all of these writers there is also a capacity to draw deeply on knowledge of myths, legends, and folklore. There is little surprise that this should be the case with Le Guin since her father was an anthropologist. One would assume that this influence shows itself as well in her talent for thinking through the social and societal implications of different structures of reality which inform so many of her books. It also shows up when she weaves in anthropological themes such as the importance of naming things as she does in Earthsea.

As mentioned earlier, Le Guin's reputation has been built on the bedrock of her Earthsea books. In a limited space it is difficult to convey the richness of these novels and the reality of an alternate world which Le Guin creates. Long before Harry Potter there was an apprentice sorcerer attending a school for wizards - Ged of the Earthsea trilogy.

While both cycles of books (Earthsea and Harry Potter) are a combination of science fiction and fantasy, of quests infused with European mythologies and symbols, and are both in a sense coming of age stories dealing with good and evil, they are not as similar as they might appear on the surface. There is an effervescence across the Harry Potter books that is not present in Earthsea. Correspondingly, there is a depth of thought and authorial contemplation in Earthsea not predominantly present in Harry Potter.

The original trilogy of Earthsea covers three phases of Ged's life - youth and apprenticeship in A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), adulthood in The Tombs of Atuan (1971), and old age in The Farthest Shore (1972). But Le Guin wraps up so much more along these continuums across the three books. You might also characterize them as focusing respectively on introspection, social connection and spirituality; or alternatively coming of age, sexuality, and death.

While Catwings is a good place to start with young ones and the Earthsea trilogy is particularly recommended for Young Adults, in Ursula Le Guin's writing you will always find a refreshing engagement with ideas and a boldness and creativity of exploring other ways of looking at things. This aspect of her writing is particularly appealing to teens.

Catwings Collection by Ursula K. Le Guin Recommended

Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by S. D. Schindler Recommended

Catwings Return by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by S. D. Schindler Suggested

Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by S. D. Schindler Suggested

Jane on Her Own by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by S. D. Schindler Suggested

Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin Recommended

Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin Recommended

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin Recommended

The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Searoad by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Four Ways To Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Gabriela Mistral and translated by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Selected Stories of H. G. Wells by H.G. Wells and edited by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

The Birthday of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Incredible Good Fortune by Ursula K. Le Guin Suggested

Ursula K. Le Guin Bibliography
Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin 1966
Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin 1966
City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin 1967
Three Hainish Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin 1967
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Ruth Robbins 1968
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 1969
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Gail Garraty 1971
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin 1971
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Gail Garraty 1972
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin 1972
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie by Ursula K. Le Guin 1973
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin 1974
Wild Angels by Ursula K. Le Guin 1975
The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Short Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin 1975
Dreams Must Explain Themselves by Ursula K. Le Guin 1975
The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin 1975
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula K. Le Guin 1976
Solomon Leviathan's Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip around the World by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Alicia Austin 1976
Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin 1976
The Water Is Wide by Ursula K. Le Guin 1976
The Altered I: An Encounter with Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin 1976
Nebula Award Stories 11 by Ursula K. Le Guin 1976
Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 1977
Leese Webster by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by James Brunsman 1979
Malafrena by Ursula K. Le Guin 1979
Tillai and Tylissos by Ursula K. Le Guin 1979
The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin 1979
The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin 1980
The Eye of the Heron, and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin 1980
Torrey Pines Reserve by Ursula K. Le Guin 1980
Interfaces: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin 1980
Edges: Thirteen New Tales from the Borderlands of the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin 1980
Hard Words, and Other Poems by Ursula K. Le Guin 1981
Gwilan's Harp by Ursula K. Le Guin 1981
The Adventures of Cobbler's Rune by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Alicia Austin 1982
Adventures in Kroy by Ursula K. Le Guin 1982
The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin 1982
In the Red Zone by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Henk Pander 1983
The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine by Ursula K. Le Guin 1984
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Margaret Chodos 1985
King Dog: A Screenplay by Ursula K. Le Guin 1985
Music and Poetry of the Kesh by Ursula K. Le Guin 1985
Rigel Nine: An Audio Opera by Ursula K. Le Guin 1985
Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts by Ursula K. Le Guin 1986
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences by Ursula K. Le Guin 1987
Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by S. D. Schindler 1988
A Visit from Dr. Katz by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Ann Barrow 1988
Wild Oats and Fireweed by Ursula K. Le Guin 1988
Catwings Return by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by S. D. Schindler 1989
Fire and Stone by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Laura Marshall 1989
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin 1989
The Way of the Waters Going: Images of the Northern California Coastal Range by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Ernest Waugh 1989
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 1991
Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand by Ursula K. Le Guin 1991
Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin 1991
Talk about Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin 1991
Fish Soup by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Patrick Wynne 1992
A Ride on the Red Mare's Back by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Julie Downing 1992
Blue Moon over Thurman Street by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Roger Dorband 1993
Earthsea Revisioned by Ursula K. Le Guin 1993
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin 1993
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 by Ursula K. Le Guin 1993
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by S. D. Schindler 1994
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Susan Seddon Boulet 1994
Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems by Ursula K. Le Guin 1994
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin 1994
Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin 1995
World of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin 1996
The Twins, The Dream: Two Voices / Las Gemelas by Ursula K. Le Guin 1996
Unlocking the Air: And Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin 1996
Lao Tzu: Tao Teh Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin 1997
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew by Ursula K. Le Guin 1998
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin 2000
Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin 2003
Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin 2004
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 2001
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin 2001
Tom Mouse by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by Julie Downing 2002
Jane on Her Own: A Catwings Tale by Ursula K. Le Guin and illustrated by S. D. Schindler 1999
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin 2004
Gabriela Mistral: Selected Poems by Gabriela Mistral 2003
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angelica Gorodischer 2003
Selected Stories of H. G. Wells by H.G. Wells 2004
Sixty Odd: New Poems by Ursula K. Le Guin 1999
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin 2002
Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin 2006
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin 2008
Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin 2007
Incredible Good Fortune by Ursula K. Le Guin 2006

Born February 11, 1939 in New York City

Jane Yolen is a writing machine. No other way to describe it. I have some 300 books written or edited by her in our bibliography but her current volume of output is so high, that even if you are not current by a year or two, then you may be short by a dozen books. I am guessing that she is currently looking at perhaps three hundred and twenty books written so far.

That's an impressive number by anyone's count but there are a few authors out there that were even more prodigious. If I remember correctly, Enid Blyton wrote something on the order of seven hundred children's books.

What makes Jane Yolen most remarkable is not the sheer volume of her writings. It is more that she has demonstrated such a catholic command of virtually everything within the children's literature arena. That is not intended as a slight towards Enid Blyton of whose writing I am a big fan and who showed real flare and imagination in creating a number of hallmark characters such as Noddy, The Famous Five and the Secret Seven. That said, though, Blyton's writing style is pretty consistent and recognizable. The flood of her work stayed within reasonably defined banks.

Jane Yolen on the other hand seems to have turned her hand to almost every writing style, genre, format, and topic that a child might possibly be interested in. She has written books, (both fiction and non-fiction), across the entire age spectrum: Picture Books, Independent Readers, Young Adults and Adults. She has worked as an author, editor, re-teller, and collaborator. She has ranged widely through most of the significant genres: concept books, drama, science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, horror stories, folktales, poetry, mysteries, autobiography, biography, musicals, etc. She has written standalone classics but also well regarded series.

Jane Yolen was born Jane Hyatt on February 11, 1939 in New York City. She lived in a house that honored words - her father was a newspaper columnist (and kite enthusiast and champion kite-flyer) and her mother a social worker and crossword puzzle writer. Yolen was the elder of two children with a younger brother behind her.

Yolen was an early and avid reader with a strong predilection for the Andrew Lang fairy tales and other stories of fantasy. She was an exemplary student in school despite frequent and numerous moves. Her abiding interest was in stories, reading and writing (she was heavily involved in theatre and busy writing stories and poetry) but she also demonstrated a marked talent for music and dancing (ballet).

Yolen graduated Hunter School and then attended Smith College, graduating in 1960 with a degree in English and Russian literature. She married David Stemple, a university professor of computer sciences in 1962. She worked for the five years after graduating college as a freelance writer and at a variety of jobs in the publishing business before becoming a full-time writer in 1965.

It was during this period that Yolen began serious exploration of the paths that might lead to a writing career. In 1962, an editor from Knopf, Judith Jones, decided to see if she might scare up some young talent and made a tour some of the elite universities. At Smith she was told that the only person that might meet her requirements was the recent graduate, Jane Yolen. When contacted, Yolen told a white lie that set her up for the kind of productivity that became her hallmark. When asked about her writing she intimated the existence of a number of books she had completed. The reality was that the ideas might have been there but the books were not. Having mentioned them though, not unnaturally, Jones requested that Yolen send some of these books for her to review. "Caught in the web of deceit I, who had always prided myself on my honesty, realized there was nothing to do but sit down at my typewriter and get something done quickly."

She decided on doing a series of children's books not realizing, as most soon learn, that the brevity required of children's books makes writing them in many cases a much more exacting task than books for adults. Having produced a handful of books in short order for review, Yolen sent them off. These initial efforts were not particularly well received but the effort to introduce them to publishers did launch her on the right path. One of the book propositions she had created (an idea which she had had in eighth grade, to do a book about lady pirates) was eventually accepted by McKay Publishing and her first book as author, Pirates in Petticoats, was released in 1963, followed the same year by See this Little Line?

In August 1965, the Yolens took time off from their careers to spend a year travelling around Europe. Shortly after their return, Jane Yolen gave birth to the first of their three children, Heidi Elizabeth. She subsequently had two sons, Adam and Jason. The family has always been a close one and all three children later contributed to their mother's books; Heidi as a coauthor, Jason as an illustrator and Adam by setting some of the works to music.

In 1966, David Stemple took a position at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The Yolens purchased a large home there and settled down to pursue their careers and raise a family. Through the later 1960's and the 1970's, while raising three children, Yolen wrote more than fifty further books for children. While successful, it was not until the 1980's that Yolen began to really register with the reading public in an established way. Just as another prolific author Astrid Lindgren's reputation has, I think, been somewhat undermined by very varied translations and by very heterogeneous illustrators (i.e. making it difficult to register her as a single author), I think Yolen's reputation among the reading population has perhaps been masked by the sheer breadth of her work.

In looking at a bibliography of some three hundred books of such heterogeneous style, genre and reading level, it is virtually impossible to make any summary statement that is not immediately contradicted by a dozen instances. I think what can best be said is that beyond her sheer creativity and imagination, Yolen is a master story-teller and a master wordsmith. She does a magnificent job of adjusting her style to the needs of the story and making every story feel like you are hearing it from your mother's lips at bedtime or from your father around a campfire.

Among the three hundred, which should be highlighted? Oh, so hard. Because she is such a chameleon of a writer, modifying style to story circumstance, not all books will be pleasing to all readers. The polymath virtuosity of her writing means that one book is not a predictor of another. Some of her books are among my very favorites, others I am indifferent to. In a peculiar way, though, I think that is an unusual mark of distinction for an author.

Among those of her books which I hear others praising and which have been honored with numerous awards, I would call out Briar Rose, The Devil's Arithmetic, the How do Dinosaurs . . . series, The Pit Dragon Trilogy, White Jenna, Letting Swift River Go, The Girl Who Cried Flowers, and the Commander Toad series.

Among my personal favorites, and those of our children are The Ballad of the Pirate Queens, All Those Secrets of the World, and Owl Moon. Picking just these dozen or so understates how many of her books are just so enjoyable but when dealing with large numbers it can be overwhelming to the point of numbing. For young children, I would especially draw attention to The Ballad of the Pirate Queens. A perfect bedtime story in which there is action and adventure, beautiful illustrations, a touch of humor, and words and poetry that gently rock you to sleep, as if listening to waves lapping the shore. To me it is a gem.

Jane Yolen is not only an author. She has long been an active and senior member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, a performer on stage of public readings and folktales, as well as a teacher at Smith College. The last words, with which I could not be in greater agreement, are best left to her:

I believe that culture begins in the cradle. Literature is a continuous process from childhood onward. . . . The continuum of literature is best maintained by these tales of fantasy, fancy, faerie, and the supra-natural, those crafted visions and bits of dream-remembering that link our past and our future. To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

Picture Books

All in the Woodland Early by Jane Yolen Suggested

Animal Train by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Doug Cushman Suggested

Apple For The Teacher by Jane Yolen, music by Adam Stemple and illustrated by Eileen Michaelis Smiles Suggested

Baby Bear's Books by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Melissa Sweet Unreviewed

Baby Bear's Chairs by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Melissa Sweet Unreviewed

Baby Bear's Big Dreams by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Melissa Sweet Unreviewed

Color Me a Rhyme by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple Suggested

Count Me a Rhyme by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple Suggested

Dear Mother, Dear Daughter by Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple and illustrated by Gil Ashby Unreviewed

Dimity Duck by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Sebastien Braun Unreviewed

Fine Feathered Friends by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple Unreviewed

The Firebird by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Vladimir Vasilevich Vagin Suggested

Here's a Little Poem - by Jane Yolen, Andrew Fusek Peters and olly Dunbar Unreviewed

Hip Hippos by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Vlasta Van Kampen Unreviewed

Hoptoad by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Karen Lee Schmidt Suggested

Horizons by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple Suggested

How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague Suggested

How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague Suggested

How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague Suggested

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague Suggested

How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague Suggested

How Do Dinosaurs Go to School by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague Suggested

How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague Suggested

How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague Recommended

Least Things by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple Suggested

Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Barbara Cooney Recommended

Meow by Jane Yolen and illustarted by Hala Wittwer Suggested

Mother Earth Father Sky edited by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jennifer Hewitson Unreviewed

Off We Go by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Laurel Molk Unreviewed

Once upon Ice edited by Jane Yolen and illustrtaed by Jason Stemple Suggested

One Hippo Hops by Jane Yolen and illustrated byVlasta Van Kampen Unreviewed

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen and illustrated by John Schoenherr Recommended

Piggins by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jane Dyer Unreviewed

Sacred Places by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Shannon Unreviewed

Sad, Mad, Glad Hippos by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Vlasta Van Kampen Unreviewed

Shape Me a Rhyme by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple Unreviewed

Sky Scrape/City Scape edited by Jane Yolen and illusttrated by Ken Condon Suggested

Sleep, Black Bear, Sleep by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple and illustrated by Brooke Dyer Suggested

Sleeping Ugly by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Diane Stanley Suggested

Snow, Snow by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple Suggested

Soft House by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin Suggested

The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Shannon Highly Recommended

The Emperor and the Kite by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ed Young Suggested

Water Music by Jane Yolen and illustrated Jason Stemple Suggested

Where Have the Unicorns Gone by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ruth Sanderson Unreviewed

Wild Wings by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple Suggested

Independent Reader

A Sending of Dragons by Jane Yolen Suggested

Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville Unreviewed

Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Bruce Degen Suggested

Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteriod by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Bruce Degen Suggested

Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Bruce Degen Suggested

Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Bruce Degen Suggested

Commander Toad and the Space Pirates by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Bruce Degen Suggested

Commander Toad and the Voyage Home by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Bruce Degen Suggested

Commander Toad in Space by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Bruce Degen Suggested

Dragon's Blood by Author Recommended

Encounter by Jane Yolen Suggested

Fairy Tale Feasts by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple and illustrated by Philippe Beha Suggested

Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen Possible

Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris Suggested

Heart's Blood by Jane Yolen Suggested

Here There Be Dragons by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Wilgus Suggested

Street Rhymes Around the World by Jane Yolen Possible

The Mary Celeste by Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple and illustrated by Roger Roth Suggested

Merlin by Jane Yolen Recommended

Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ming Li Recommended

Mightier Than the Sword by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Raul Colon Suggested

Miz Berlin Walks by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Floyd Cooper Suggested

My Brothers' Flying Machine by Jane Yolen and illustrate by Jim Burke Suggested

Not One Damsel in Distress by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Susan Guevara Recommended

Odds Are Good by Bruce Coville and Jane Yolen Unreviewed

Passager by Jane Yolen Suggested

Pay The Piper by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple Unreviewed

Prince Across the Water by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris Suggested

Queen's Own Fool by Jane Yolen Suggested

Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen Unreviewed

Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen Suggested

Bagpiper's Ghost by Jane Yolen Suggested

The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple and illustrated by Rebecca Guay Recommendation

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen Recommended

The Dragon's Boy by Jane Yolen Suggested

Magic Three of Solatia by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Julia Noonan Unreviewed

The One-Armed Queen by Jane Yolen Unreviewed

The Perfect Wizard by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Dennis Nolan Suggested

The Pictish Child by Jane Yolen Suggested

Roanoke by Jane Yolen Heidi and E. Y. Stemple and illustrated by Roger Roth Suggested

The Rogues by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris Suggested

The Salem Witch Trials by Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple and illustrated by Roger Roth Suggested

The Wizard's Map by Jane Yolen Suggested

The Young Merlin Trilogy by Jane Yolen Suggested

This Little Piggy edited by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Will Hillenbrand with music by Adam Stemple Unreviewed

Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Jane Yolen Suggested

Welcome to the Green House by Jane Yolen and llustrated by Laura Regan Suggested

Welcome to the Ice House by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Laura Regan Suggested

Welcome to the River of Grass by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Laura Regan Suggested

Wizard's Hall by Jane Yolen Suggested

Young Adult

Title by Author Recommended

The Books of Magic by Jane Yolen Unreviewed

The Year's Best Science Fiction And Fantasy For Teens edited by Jane Yolen and Patrick Nielsen Hayden Unreviewed

Jane Yolen Bibliography

Pirates in Petticoats by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh 1963
See This Little Line? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Kathleen Elgin 1963
The Witch Who Wasn't by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Arnold Roth 1964
Gwinellen, the Princess Who Could Not Sleep by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ed Renfro 1965
Trust a City Kid by Jane Yolen and illustrated by J. C. Kocsis 1966
Isabel's Noel by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Arnold Roth 1967
Robin Hood by Jane Yolen 1967
The Emperor and the Kite by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ed Young 1967
The Minstrel and the Mountain: A Tale of Peace by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Anne Rockwell 1967
Greyling: A Picture Story from the Islands of Shetland by Jane Yolen and illustrated by William Stobbs 1968
The Longest Name on the Block by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Peter Madden 1968
World on a String: The Story of Kites by Jane Yolen 1968
The Inway Investigators; or The Mystery at McCracken's Place by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Allan Eitzen 1969
The Wizard of Washington Square by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ray Cruz 1969
Hobo Toad and the Motorcycle Gang by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Emily McCully 1970
It All Depends by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Don Bolognese 1970
The Seventh Mandarin by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ed Young 1970
The Bird of Time by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mercer Mayer 1971
Friend: The Story of George Fox and the Quakers by Jane Yolen 1972
The Fireside Song Book of Birds and Beasts by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Peter Parnall 1972
The Girl Who Loved the Wind by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ed Young 1972
The Wizard Islands by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Robert Quackenbush 1973
Writing Books for Children by Jane Yolen 1973
Zoo 2000: Twelve Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy Beasts by Jane Yolen 1973
Ring Out! A Book of Bells by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Richard Cuffari 1974
The Adventures of Eeka Mouse by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Myra McKee 1974
The Boy Who Had Wings by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Helga Aichinger 1974
The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Palladini 1974
The Magic Three of Solatia by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Julia Noonan 1974
The Rainbow Rider by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Michael Foreman 1974
The Little Spotted Fish by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Friso Henstra 1975
The Transfigured Hart by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Donna Diamond 1975
An Invitation to the Butterfly Ball: A Counting Rhyme by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jane Breskin Zalben 1976
Milkweed Days by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Gabriel Amadeus Cooney 1976
Simple Gifts: The Story of the Shakers by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Betty Fraser 1976
The Moon Ribbon and Other Tales by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Palladini 1976
Hannah Dreaming by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Alan R. Epstein 1977
Rounds about Rounds by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Gail Gibbons 1977
The Giants' Farm by Jane Yolen 1977
The Hundredth Dove and Other Tales by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Palladini 1977
The Lady and the Merman by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Barry Moser 1977
The Seeing Stick by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Remy Charlip and Demetra Maraslis 1977
The Sultan's Perfect Tree by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Barbara Garrison 1977
No Bath Tonight by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Nancy Winslow Parker 1978
Shape Shifters: Fantasy and Science Fiction Tales about Humans Who Can Change Their Shape by Jane Yolen 1978
Spider Jane by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Stefan Bernath 1978
The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Laura Rader 1978
The Simple Prince by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jack Kent 1978
All in the Woodland Early: An ABC Book by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jane Breskin Zalben 1979
Dream Weaver and Other Tales by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Michael Hague 1979
The Giants Go Camping by Jane Yolen 1979
Commander Toad in Space by Jane Yolen 1980
Dragon Night and Other Lullabies by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Demi 1980
How Beastly!: A Menagerie of Nonsense Poems by Jane Yolen and illustrated by James Marshall 1980
Mice on Ice by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Lawrence DiFiori 1980
Spider Jane on the Move by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Stefan Bernath 1980
The Robot and Rebecca: The Mystery of the Code-Carrying Kids by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jurg Obrist 1980
Brothers of the Wind by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Barbara Berger 1981
Dragons of Light by Orson Scott Card 1981
Elsewhere Volume 1 by Terri Windling 1981
Shirlick Holmes and the Case of the Wandering Wardrobe by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Anthony Rao 1981
Sleeping Ugly by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Diane Stanley 1981
The Acorn Quest by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Susanna Natti 1981
The Boy Who Spoke Chimp by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Wiesner 1981
The Gift of Sarah Barker by Jane Yolen 1981
The Robot and Rebecca and the Missing Owser by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Lady McCrady 1981
Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood by Jane Yolen 1981
Uncle Lemon's Spring by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Glen Rounds 1981
Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes by Jane Yolen 1982
Dragon's Blood: A Fantasy by Jane Yolen 1982
Elsewhere Volume 2 by Terri Windling 1982
Hecate's Cauldron by Susan Schwartz 1982
Merlin's Booke by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Thomas Canty 1982
Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea Folk by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Wiesner 1982
Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole by Jane Yolen 1983
Heroic Visions by Jessica Amanda Salmonson 1983
Tales of Wonder by Jane Yolen 1983
Cards of Grief by Jane Yolen 1984
Children of the Wolf by Jane Yolen 1984
Heart's Blood by Jane Yolen 1984
The Stone Silenus by Jane Yolen 1984
Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteroid by Jane Yolen 1985
Dragonfield and Other Stories by Jane Yolen 1985
Faery! by Windling 1985
Imaginary Lands by Robin McKinley 1985
Liavek by Will Shetterly 1985
Moonsinger's Friends by Susan Schwartz 1985
Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy by Jane Yolen 1986
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England by Jack Zipes 1986
Dragons and Dreams by Jane Yolen 1986
Favorite Folktales from around the World by Jane Yolen 1986
Liavek: Players of Luck by Will Shetterly 1986
Ring of Earth: A Child's Book of Seasons by Jane Yolen and illustrated by John Wallner 1986
The Lullaby Songbook by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak 1986
The Sleeping Beauty by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ruth Sanderson 1986
A Sending of Dragons by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Tom McKeveny 1987
Commander Toad and the Space Pirates by Jane Yolen 1987
Liavek: Wizard's Row by Will Shetterly 1987
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen and illustrated by John Schoenherr 1987
Piggins by Jane Yolen 1987
Spaceships and Spells by Jane Yolen 1987
The Three Bears Rhyme Book by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jane Dyer 1987
Visions by Donald R. Gallo 1987
Invitation to Camelot by Parke Godwin 1988
Liavek: Spells of Binding by Will Shetterly 1988
Picnic with Piggins by Jane Yolen 1988
Piggins and the Royal Wedding by Jane Yolen 1988
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen 1988
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen 1988
Werewolves: A Collection of Original Stories by Jane Yolen 1988
Best Witches: Poems for Halloween by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Elise Primavera 1989
Dove Isabeau by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Dennis Nolan 1989
Guide to Writing for Children by Jane Yolen 1989
The Faery Flag: Stories and Poems of Fantasy and the Supernatural by Jane Yolen 1989
The Lap-Time Song and Play Book by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Margot Tomes 1989
Things That Go Bump in the Night by Jane Yolen 1989
White Jenna by Jane Yolen 1989
2041 AD: Twelve Stories about the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers (anthology) by Jane Yolen 1990
Baby Bear's Bedtime Book by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jane Dyer 1990
Bird Watch by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ted Lewin 1990
Dinosaur Dances by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Degen 1990
Elfabet: An ABC of Elves by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Lauren Mills 1990
Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Barbara Cooney 1990
Sky Dogs by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Barry Moser 1990
Tam Lin: An Old Ballad by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak 1990
The Dragon's Boy by Jane Yolen 1990
A Plague of Sorcerers by Mary Frances Zambreno 1991
All Those Secrets of the World by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Leslie Baker 1991
An Invitation to the Butterfly Ball: A Counting Rhyme by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jane Breskin Zalben 1991
Appleblossom by Shulamith L. Oppenheim 1991
Hark! A Christmas Sampler by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Tomie dePaola 1991
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville 1991
Sword and the Stone by Jane Yolen 1991
The Jewel of Life by Anna Kirwan-Vogel 1991
The Patchwork Lady by Mary K. Whittington 1991
The Red Ball by Joanna Yardley 1991
Vampires by Jane Yolen 1991
Wings by Jane Yolen 1991
Wizard's Hall by Jane Yolen 1991
A Letter from Phoenix Farm by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple 1992
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen 1992
Eeny, Meeny, Miney Mole by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Kathryn Brown 1992
Encounter by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Shannon 1992
Jane Yolen's Mother Goose Songbook by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Rosecrans Hoffman 1992
Storyteller by Jane Yolen 1992
Street Rhymes around the World by Jane Yolen and illustrated by seventeen artists 1992
Hands by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Chi Chung 1993
Here There Be Dragons by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Wilgus 1993
Honkers by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Leslie Baker 1993
Jane Yolen's Songs of Summer by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Cyd Moore 1993
Mouse's Birthday by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Degen 1993
Mouse's Birthday by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Degen 1993
Raining Cats and Dogs by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Janet Street 1993
Sleep Rhymes around the World by Jane Yolen and illustrated by seventeen artists 1993
Weather Report by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Annie Gusman 1993
Welcome to the Green House by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Laura Reagan 1993
What Rhymes with Moon? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Councell 1993
Xanadu One by Jane Yolen 1993
Alphabestiary: Animal Poems from A to Z by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Allan Eitzen 1994
And Twelve Chinese Acrobats by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jean Gralley 1994
Animal Fare: Zoological Nonsense Poems by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Janet Street 1994
Beneath the Ghost Moon by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Laurel Molk 1994
Good Griselle by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Christiana 1994
Grandad Bill's Song by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Melissa Bay Mathis 1994
Here There Be Unicorns by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Wilgus 1994
Jane Yolen's Old MacDonald Songbook by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Rosecrans Hoffman 1994
Little Mouse and Elephant: A Tale from Turkey by Jane Yolen and illustrated by John Segal 1994
Old Dame Counterpane by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ruth Tietjen Councell 1994
Sacred Places by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Shannon 1994
The Girl in the Golden Bower by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jane Dyer 1994
The Musicians of Bremen: A Tale from Germany by Jane Yolen and illustrated by John Segal 1994
Xanadu Two by Jane Yolen 1994
A Sip of Aesop by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Karen Barbour 1995
Among Angels by Jane Yolen and illustrated by S. Saelig Gallagher 1995
Before the Storm by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Georgia Pugh 1995
Camelot: A Collection of Original Arthurian Tales by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Winslow Pels 1995
Here There Be Witches by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Wilgus 1995
Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ming Li 1995
The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Shannon 1995
The Books of Magic by Jane Yolen 1995
The Haunted House: A Collection of Original Stories by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Doron Ben-Ami 1995
The Three Bears Holiday Rhyme Book by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jane Dyer 1995
The Wild Hunt by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Francisco Mora 1995
Water Music: Poems for Children by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple 1995
Xanadu Three by Jane Yolen 1995
Here There Be Angels by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Wilgus 1996
Hobby by Jane Yolen 1996
Meet the Monsters by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Patricia Ludlow 1996
Milk and Honey: A Year of Jewish Holidays by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Louise August 1996
Mother Earth, Father Sky: Poems of Our Planet by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jennifer Hewitson 1996
O Jerusalem by Jane Yolen and illustrated by John Thompson 1996
Passager by Jane Yolen 1996
Sea Watch: A Book of Poetry by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ted Lewin 1996
Sing Noel by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Nancy Carpenter 1996
Sky Scrape/City Scape: Poems of City Life by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ken Condon 1996
Welcome to the Sea of Sand by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Laura Regan 1996
Child of Faerie, Child of Earth by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jane Dyer 1997
Merlin by Jane Yolen 1997
Miz Berlin Walks by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Floyd Cooper 1997
Nocturne by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Anne Hunter 1997
Once upon a Bedtime Story: Classic Tales by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Councell 1997
Once upon Ice and Other Frozen Poems by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple 1997
The Books of Great Alta by Jane Yolen 1997
The Sea Man by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Christopher Denise 1997
Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast by Jane Yolen 1997
Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen 1998
Commander Toad and the Voyage Home by Jane Yolen 1998
Gray Heroes: Elder Tales from around the World by Jane Yolen 1998
Here There Be Ghosts by Jane Yolen and illustrated by David Wilgus 1998
House, House by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Howes Brothers and Jason Stemple 1998
King Long Shanks by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Victoria Chess 1998
Pegasus, the Flying Horse by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ming Li 1998
Prince of Egypt by Jane Yolen 1998
Raising Yoder's Barn by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Bernie Fuchs 1998
Snow, Snow: Winter Poems for Children by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple 1998
Tea with an Old Dragon: A Story of Sophia Smith, Founder of Smith College by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Monica Vachula 1998
The One-armed Queen by Jane Yolen 1998
The Originals: Animals That Time Forgot by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ted Lewin 1998
The Wizard's Map by Jane Yolen 1998
Welcome to the Ice House by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Laura Regan 1998
Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Roger Roth 1999
Moonball by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Greg Couch 1999
The Fairies' Ring: A Book of Fairy Stories & Poems by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Stephen Mackey 1999
The Pictish Child by Jane Yolen 1999
Boots and the Seven Leaguers: A Rock-and-Troll Novel by Jane Yolen 2000
Color Me a Rhyme: Nature Poems for Children by Jane Yolen 2000
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague 2000
Mirror, Mirror by Jane Yolen 2000
Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Susan Guevara 2000
Off We Go! by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Laurel Molk 2000
Queen's Own Fool by Jane Yolen 2000
Sherwood: A Collection of Original Robin Hood Stories by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Dennis Nolan 2000
Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories by Jane Yolen 2000
Where Have the Unicorns Gone? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ruth Sanderson 2000
Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Gil Ashby 2001
Odysseus in the Serpent Maze by Jane Yolen 2001
Odysseus in the Serpent Maze by Jane Yolen 2001
The Fish Prince and Other Stories: Mermen Folk Tales by Jane Yolen 2001
The Wolf Girls: An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Roger Roth 2001
Welcome to the River of Grass by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Laura Regan 2001
Firebird by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Vladimir Vagin 2002
Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen 2002
Harvest Home by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Greg Shed 2002
Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons by Jane Yolen 2002
Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons by Jane Yolen 2002
Horizons: Poems as Far as the Eye Can See by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple 2002
The Bagpiper's Ghost by Jane Yolen 2002
The Sea King by Jane Yolen 2002
Wild Wings: Poems for Young People by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple 2002
Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast by Jane Yolen 2003
Atlanta and the Arcadian Beast by Jane Yolen 2003
Hoptoad by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Karen Lee Schmidt 2003
Least Things: Poems about Small Natures by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple 2003
Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Paul Colón 2003
My Brothers' Flying Machine by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jim Burke 2003
Roanoke: The Lost Colony: An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Roger Roth 2003
Take Joy: A Book for Writers by Jane Yolen 2003
The Flying Witch by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Vladimir Vagin 2003
The Radiation Sonnets by Jane Yolen 2003
The Roanoke Colony: An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Roger Roth 2003
Fine Feathered Friends by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple 2004
How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague 2004
How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague 2004
Jason and the Gorgon's Blood by Jane Yolen 2004
Meow: Cat Stories from around the World by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Hala Wittwer 2004
Prince Across the Water by Jane Yolen 2004
Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen 2004
The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Denis Nolan 2004
The Salem Witch Trials by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Roger Roth 2004
Apple for the Teacher by Jane Yolen 2005
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague 2005
Pay the Piper by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Adam Stemple 2005
Baby Bear's Books by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Melissa Sweet 2006
Baby Bear's Chairs by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Melissa Sweet 2006
Odds Are Good by Jane Yolen 2006
This Little Piggy by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Will Hillenbrandt 2006
Baby Bear's Dreams by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Melissa Sweet 2007
Here's A Little Poem by Jane Yolen 2007
Shape Me A Rhyme by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple 2007
The Rogues by Jane Yolen 2007
Hip Hippos by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Vasta Van Kampen 2008
One Hippos Hop by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Vlasta Van Kampen 2008
Sad, Mad, Glad Hippos by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Vlasta Van Kampen 2008
Animal Train by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Doug Cushman
Count Me a Rhyme by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Jason Stemple
Dimity Duck by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Sebastian Braun
Fairy Tale Feasts by Jane Yolen
How Do Diinosaurs Learn Their Colors? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague
How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague
How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague
How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, a counting rhyme book published by Doubleday, and a series of activity books. by Ghostwriter
Sleep, Black Bear, Sleep by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Brooke Dyer
Soft House by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin
The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Rebecca (ILT) Guay-Mitchell
The Whitethorn Wood by Jane Yolen
The Year's Best Science Fiction And Fantasy For Teens by Jane Yolen
The Young Merlin Trilogy by Jane Yolen
Troll Bridge by Jane Yolen

Born circa 1907 in Budapest, Hungary
Died November 7, 1986 in Nyack, New York

Paul Galdone was a very prolific illustrator/author of Hungarian birth and American citizenship. Anyone coming of reading age from the 1950's to the 1970's would probably recognize at least one of his nearly three hundred books. While the majority of his books involved his illustrating the works of other authors, he did also author nearly fifty retellings of traditional folktales as well.

As well known an illustrator as Galdone was, there is quite a bit of uncertainty about some the early details of his life. He was born in Budapest, Hungary sometime between 1907 and 1914. His parents emigrated to the United States in either 1921 or 1928, depending on which account you read. The only fact on which I have found any consistency is that he was fourteen when he arrived here.

As is often the case, his story is best told in his own words, in this instance from his autobiographical sketch in the Third Book of Junior Authors:

When I was about fourteen we left Budapest. A kind aunt in New Jersey had arranged affidavits for us and on arrival there I was promptly enrolled in high school. The Hungarian language proved to be not very useful in the United States, so in an effort to get me over the barrier I had to attend three English classes every day along with one in biology. When it came my turn to read from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream it was highly embarrassing. Not only did I have an accent that amused the whole class but on top of that I failed to understand most of what I was trying to read. In the biology class, however, I felt more successful; when it was discovered that I was proficient in the drawing of grasshoppers I was soon drawing them for all the other pupils.

We soon moved to New York City. To help support my family in the struggle to get started I worked during the day as bus-boy, electrician's helper on unfinished skyscrapers, fur dyer, and so on. At night I attended art schools: the Art Students League and New York School for Industrial Design. Eventually, four years of working in the Art Department of Doubleday & Company determined my direction. I loved everything in the world of book production, the people and the challenges, and there I had a chance to design my first book jacket. That led to free lancing.

I lived in Greenwich Village and while I free-lanced and built up a busy career in book jacket designing I kept up my interest in fine arts by drawing and painting and by long sketching vacations in Vermont. I also became increasingly interested in illustration.

Galdone served four years in the US Army Corps of Engineers in World War II in the art department. On returning he settled in rural Rockland County with his wife, Jannelise. The Galdones designed their home with the assistance of his brother-in-law, an architect. The Galdones had two children, a girl and a boy. Their daughter, Joanna, later authored two books that her father illustrated.

Galdone seems to have been very successful in carving out exactly the life he wished to have. His career was spent doing something he both enjoyed and was good at - illustrating children's books. For most of his career, he authored and or illustrated between half a dozen and a dozen books a year. This allowed him substantial independence, working for most the main publishers and with many of the name authors of his generation. He was able to work from home in the country (he had his main home in Rockland County as well as a summer house in Vermont) which, in turn, allowed him to pursue his other interests; gardening, hiking and generally enjoying being outdoors.

Galdone's art style was very much of the 1950's-60's but has aged well compared to others. Some have described his style as cartoon-like and I suppose that it is but one that does not come across as slapdash, cheap or tawdry as is often so easily the unintended effect. Like Alice and Martin Provensen, working in the same period, he uses a lot of angular shapes in his illustrations along with strong colors but he rounds out his figures and gives a greater sense of motion and action. While he does take some liberties with perspective and size, it is in greater moderation than the Provensens. He most frequently worked in pen with colored ink washes.

He is a very visual artist in that he often incorporated telling details into his illustrations that would not be mentioned in the text but would catch the eye of an attentive child. He also was very sly in some of his work. In the Anatole series of books by Eve Titus, based on the adventures of a French mouse named Anatole living in Paris, the illustrations are substantially in black and white but accented with red and blue washes. As a child, I thought this perfectly natural and gave it not a second thought. It was just part of the distinctive and attractive style of the book. Only as a parent, reading these books to my children, did I catch the French patriotism of the color scheme - how Galdone was accentuating the Frenchness of Anatole by using only the colors of the French flag.

What is perhaps most notable about Galdone's style is that it is basically reassuring. It is energetic enough and bold enough to be gripping to a young child and will hold their attention without becoming too busy or distracting. Secondly, there is a familiarity to the settings which helps engage children. Even with old European folktales, visually they sort of look like they are happening in rural or suburban America. A child can relate to them.

Galdone illustrated books by many of the classic children's authors including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Lear, Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Clement Moore, Hans Christian Anderson, the Grimm Brothers and Charles Perrault. Among contemporary authors and some who were just starting out, there are many leading lights. He illustrated almost all of Eve Titus' books including both series for which she is best known, the Anatole series and the Basil series. Among the other leading names with whom he worked were William O. Steele, Clyde T. Bulla, Farley Mowat, Pura Belpre, and Jean Fritz.

The first book Galdone illustrated was written by Ellen MacGregor and was published in 1951. It was called Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars and was the first in a series of popular Miss Pickerell books. It is in these early books that you can get the best sense for the feel of illustration of the 1950's - that rich mixture of technological progress and promise matched to a country that was still substantially rural in its setting and culture - captured in this illustration from that very first book.

Perhaps what Galdone is most noted for is his work retelling and bringing to life old European folktales. That his art remains fresh and relevant today is a testament to his skills as an artist. The fact that the topics he chose to illustrate, folktales, are a testament to his focus on the enduring stories that are refreshed for each generation. While he did illustrations for collections of folktales (Andersen, Grimm, Aesop, etc.), I think the real jewels are the tales for which he provides enough illustration to allow a single story to be published as a book, as he does with many folktales and Mother Goose rhymes. Each one of these is just the right length for reading to a two to five year old and imparts very simple but critical life lessons. These stories are legion and many remain in print. Among the pertinent titles for building a rich library of stand-alone folktales are Henny Penny, The House that Jack Built, Hare and the Tortoise, Life of Jack Sprat, Androcles and the Lion, Three Little Pigs, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Bremen Town Musicians, The Little Red Hen, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Gingerbread Boy, etc.

Galdone is also a good author with whom to allow your children to cut their teeth on difficult subjects and scary stories. Henny Penny (a retelling of the traditional Chicken Little tale) is the story of the eponymous chicken, hit on the head by a falling acorn, who concludes without investigation that the sky is falling. She must warn the king. She sets out for the palace and along the way collects various - and equally unskeptical - friends including Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, Turkey Lurkey etc. Unfortunately for the feathered friends, their paths then cross that of the much more astute Foxy Loxy. With a family to feed and little concern for the falling sky, he offers to show them a shortcut to the King's palace through his cave. Well it is a shortcut, but not to the palace. The fox family has reason to have happy memories of the fine feast they enjoyed that day. Obviously, for a young child, this rather grim (from the avian perspective) outcome could be most distressing but not in the hands of Galdone.

It is easy to forget how rich these traditional tales are in critical lessons our children need to hear in the safety of their parent's lap. Paul Galdone does a superb job between his language and his art of delivering those subtle messages in a story that completely engages the child. His wording is direct and repetitive (without being monotonous) and therefore very accessible to a young child just mastering the intricacies of language.

Among the scary stories, you might try The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Virtually every child I know loves to be scared by that old Troll under the bridge and to see BIG Billy Goat Gruff show him what-for. Our children, for a period of time, made it their very own story by becoming a troll under every bridge or foot overpass that they encountered, leaping out upon their sibling or parent who needed to play the part of a billy goat. Another good one, again a favorite of virtually all children I have seen hearing it, is The Teeny-Tiny Woman.

I hope you enjoy these wonderfully enduring tales by Paul Galdone.

Picture Books

Anatole by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone Highly Recommended

Anatole And the Cat by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone Suggested

The Elves and the Shoemaker by Paul Galdone Recommended

Henny Penny by Paul Galdone Recommended

The Monkey and the Crocodile by Paul Galdon Suggested

Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone Suggested

The Three Bears by Paul Galdone Suggested

The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone Recommended

The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone Recommended

Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone Recommended

Puss in Boots by Paul Galdone and Charles Perrault Suggested

Magic Porridge Pot by Paul Galdone Suggested

The Tailypo by Joanna Galdone and illustrated by Paul Galdone Suggested

Three Ducks Went Wandering by Ron Roy and illustrated by Paul Galdone Recommendation

Jack and the Beanstalk by Paul Galdone Suggested

The Turtle and the Monkey by Paul Galdone Suggested

George Washington's Breakfast by Jean Fritz and illustrated by Paul Galdone Suggested

The Teeny-Tiny Woman by Paul Galdone Recommended

Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee by Paul Galdone Suggested

Rumpelstiltskin by Paul Galdone Suggested

Three Little Kittens by Paul Galdone Suggested

Paul Galdone's Bibliography

Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by Ellen MacGregor and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1951
Nine Lives by Edward Fenton and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1951
Of Mikes and Men by Jane Woodfin and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1951
Space Cat by Ruthven Todd and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1952
Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter by Ellen MacGregor and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1953
Miss Pickerell Goes Undersea by Ellen MacGregor and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1953
Green Song by Doris T. Plenn and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1954
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1954
How Do You Travel? by Miriam Schlein and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1954
Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic by Ellen MacGregor and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1954
Winter Danger by William O. Steele and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1954
Playing Possum by Edward M. Eager and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1955
Theodore Turtle by Ellen MacGregor and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1955
Tomahawks and Trouble by William O. Steele and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1955
Anatole by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1956
Audubon and His Sons by Amy Hogeboom and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1956
Ball of Fire by Earl Schenck Miers and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1956
Did You Feed My Cow? by Margaret T. Burroughs and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1956
Lone Hunt by William O. Steele and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1956
Mr. Ferguson and the Fire Department by Ellen MacGregor and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1956
Sword in the Tree by Clyde T. Bulla and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1956
Anatole and the Cat by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1957
Flaming Arrows by William O. Steele and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1957
Old Charlie by Clyde T. Bulla and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1957
Rusty Rings a Bell by M. Franklin and Eleanor K. Vaughan and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1957
Space Cat Meets Mars by Ruthven Todd and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1957
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by Farley Mowat and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1957
Bascombe, the Fastest Hound Alive by Adam Smith and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1958
Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus and Paul Galdone and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1958
Perilous Road by William O. Steele and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1958
Far Frontier by William O. Steele and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1959
Grandfather and I by Helen E. Buckley and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1959
Jamesville Jets by C. Paul Jackson and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1959
Little Tuck by Clara Baldwin and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1959
Paddy the Penguin written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1959
The Golden Touch by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1959
Timmy and the Tin-Can Telephone by M. Franklin and Eleanor K. Vaughan and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1959
A Gaggle of Geese by Eve Merriam and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1960
Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog by Mother Goose and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1960
Old Woman and Her Pig written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1960
The Lemonade Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1960
Anatole over Paris by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1961
Rendezvous in Singapore by Cora Cheney and Ben Partridge and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1961
Robber Ghost by Karin Anckarsvard and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1961
The House That Jack Built written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1961
The Mailbox Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1961
The Three Wishes written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1961
Woodrow Wilson by Alfred Steinburg and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1961
Counting Carnival by Paul Galdone and Feenie Ziner and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1962
Hare and the Tortoise written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1962
Jeff and Mr. James' Pond by Esther M. Meeks and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1962
Madcap Mystery by Karin Anckarsvard and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1962
Sunnyvale Fair by Alice E. Goudey and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1962
The First Seven Days by Bible and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1962
The Two Old Bachelors by Edward Lear and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1962
Big Basketball Prize by Marion Renick and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1963
Capital Ship; or The Walloping Window-Blind by Charles E. Carryl and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1963
Miss Osborne-the-Mop by Wilson Gage and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1963
Mister Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert Barry and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1963
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1963
The Blind Men and the Elephant by John G. Saxe and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1963
The Disappearing Dog Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1963
Edie Changes Her Mind by Johanna Johnston and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1964
Peek the Piper by Vitali Bianki and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1964
People Downstairs, and Other City Stories by Rhoda Bacmeister and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1964
People I'd Like to Keep by Mary O'Neill and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1964
The Battle of the Kegs by Francis Hopkinson and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1964
The Limerick Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1964
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son by Mother Goose and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1964
Anatole and the Poodle by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1965
Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1965
Brownie by Hans Peterson and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1965
Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego by Bible and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1965
Mysterious Schoolmaster by Karin Anckarsvard and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1965
The Adventures of Egbert the Easter Egg by Richard W. Armour and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1965
The Baseball Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1965
The Deacon's Masterpiece by Oliver Wendell Holmes and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1965
The Little Boy and the Birthdays by Helen E. Buckley and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1965
Who's in Charge of Lincoln? by Dale Fife and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1965
A Camel in the Sea by Lee G. Goetz and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
Anatole and the Piano by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
Animals on the Ceiling by Richard Willard Armour and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
Koko and the Ghosts by Ivan Kusan and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
That's Right, Edie by Johanna Johnston and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
The Adventures of Homer Fink by Sidney Offit and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
The Ghost of Five Owl Farm by Wilson Gage and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
The History of Simple Simon written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
The Secrets of Hidden Creek by Wylly Folk St. John and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
Three Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
Two Laughable Lyrics by Edward Lear and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1966
A Dozen Dinosaurs by Richard Willard Armour and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
Elbert, the Mind Reader by Barbara Rinkoff and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
High Sounds, Low Sounds by Franklyn M. Branley and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
Little Tuppen written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
Pandora's Box: The Paradise of Children by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
The Tsar's Riddles by Guy Daniels and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
The Turnabout Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
Wallace the Wandering Pig by Judy Van der Veer and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
Whiskers, My Cat by Letta Schatz and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
Who's in Holes by Richard Willard Armour and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
Woody's Big Trouble by Patricia M. Martin and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
Your Skin and Mine by Paul Showers and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1967
A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement C. Moore and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1968
Budd's Noisy Wagon by Richard Shaw and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1968
Henny Penny written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1968
Odd Old Mammals by Richard Willard Armour and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1968
Sunlit Sea by Augusta R. Goldin and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1968
The Boy with a Billion Pets by Peggy Mann and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1968
The Bremen Town Musicians by Grimm Brothers and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1968
The Buffalo Knife by William O. Steele and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1968
The Horse, the Fox, and the Lion written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1968
The Wise Fool by Francois Rabelais and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1968
Anatole and the Thirty Thieves by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1969
George Washington's Breakfast by Jean Fritz and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1969
Grandmother and I by Helen E. Buckley and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1969
Life of Jack Sprat, His Wife, and Cat written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1969
Look at Your Eyes by Paul Showers and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1969
Ote by Pura Belpre and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1969
Sidney's Ghost by Carol Iden and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1969
The Hairy Horror Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1969
The Monkey and the Crocodile written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1969
To the Rescue by Van der Veer and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1969
All Sizes and Shapes of Monkeys and Apes by Paul Galdone and Richard W. Armour and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1970
Anatole and the Toyshop by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1970
Androcles and the Lion written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1970
History of Little Tom Tucker written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1970
Three Little Pigs written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1970
Try It Again, Sam: Safety When You Walk by Judith Viorst and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1970
Two and Me Makes Three by Roberta Greene and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1970
What's New, Lincoln? by Dale Fife and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1970
Basil and the Pygmy Cats by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1971
Dogs and Cats and Things like That (poetry) by John Knoepfle and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1971
Obedient Jack written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1971
The Hateful Plateful Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1971
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1971
Three Aesop Fox Fables by Aesop and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1971
What's the Prize, Lincoln? by Dale Fife and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1971
Dance of the Animals: A Puerto Rican Folk Tale by Pura Belpre and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1972
Honeybee's Party by Paul Galdone and Joanna Galdone and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1972
It Does Not Say Meow by Beatrice S. De Regniers and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1972
One Hundred Hamburgers: The Getting Thin Book by Mary L. Solot and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1972
The Improbable Adventures of Marvelous O'Hara Soapstone by Zibby Oneal and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1972
The Three Bears written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1972
Anatole in Italy by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1973
Clarence and the Burglar by F. N. Monjo and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1973
Hereafterthis by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1973
The Cool Ride in the Sky by Diane Wolkstein and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1973
The Home Run Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1973
The Little Red Hen written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1973
The Moving Adventures of Old Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1973
The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Peter C. Asbjornsen and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1973
Jack-o'-Lantern by Edna Barth and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1974
Little Red Riding Hood by Grimm Brothers and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1974
Sea Full of Whales by Richard Willard Armour and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1974
Speak up, Edie! by Johanna Johnston and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1974
The Frog Prince by Grimm Brothers and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1974
The History of Mother Twaddle and the Marvelous Achievements of Her Son Jack written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1974
The Hockey Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1974
Basil in Mexico by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1975
Because of the Sand Witches There by Mary Q. Steele and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1975
Clarence and the Burglar by Patricia Lauber and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1975
Follow Your Nose by Paul Showers and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1975
Gertrude, the Goose Who Forgot by Paul Galdone and Joanna Galdone and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1975
The Gingerbread Boy written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1975
The Lady Who Saw the Good Side of Everything by Pat D. Tapio and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1975
The Queen Who Couldn't Bake Gingerbread by Dorothy Van Woerkom and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1975
Who Goes There, Lincoln? by Dale Fife and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1975
How Many Teeth? by Paul Showers and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1976
Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1976
The Black Mask Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1976
The Magic Porridge Pot written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1976
The Table, the Donkey, and the Stick by Grimm Brothers and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1976
Clarence and the Cat by Patricia Lauber and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1977
Gorilla in the Hall by Alice Schertle and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1977
Hangman's Ghost Trick by Scott Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1977
Strange Servant: A Russian Folktale written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1977
The Tailypo: A Ghost Story by Joanna Galdone and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1977
Who'll Vote for Lincoln? by Dale Fife and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1977
Amber Day by Joanna Galdone and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1978
Cinderella written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1978
The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1978
Wriggles, the Little Wishing Pig by Pauline Watson and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1978
Anatole and the Pied Piper by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1979
Hans in Luck by Grimm Brothers and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1979
Jack O' Lantern by Edna Barth and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1979
Strange Monsters of the Sea by Richard Willard Armour and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1979
The Hungry Fox and the Foxy Duck by Kathleen Leverich and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1979
The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Anderson and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1979
The Talking Turnip by Anne Rose and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1979
Three Ducks Went Wandering by Ron Roy and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1979
Zed and the Monsters by Peggy Parish and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1979
King of the Cats by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1980
The Little Girl and the Big Bear by Joanna Galdone and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1980
Basil in the Old West by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1981
Insects All around Us by Richard Willard Armour and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1981
The Amazing Pig written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1981
The Three Sillies by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1981
Hansel and Gretel written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1982
Jack and the Beanstalk written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1982
The Monster and the Tailor written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1982
What's in Fox's Sack?: An Old English Tale written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1982
Norma Lee, I Don't Knock on Doors: Knock Knock Jokes by Charles Keller and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1983
The Disappearing Dog Trick by Eve Corbett and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1983
The Greedy Old Fat Man written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1983
Turtle and the Monkey: A Philippine Tale written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1983
George Washington's Breakfast by Jean Fritz and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1984
The Elves and the Shoemaker written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1984
The Teeny-Tiny Woman: A Ghost Story written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1984
Cat Goes Fiddle-i-Fee written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1985
Rumpelstiltskin written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1985
Little Bo-Peep written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1986
Three Little Kittens written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1986
The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1987
Over in the Meadow written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1989
The Complete Story of the Three Blind Mice by John W. Ivimey and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1989
Nursery Classics: A Galdone Treasury written and illustrated by Paul Galdone 2001

Born March 27, 1922 in Gloucestershire, England

It clearly is not the case that you have to have a fascinating life in order to be a wonderful writer, but surely it must help. Dick King-Smith (see his booklist) is a wonderful English writer who certainly has had a fascinating life. He has written more than hundred books primarily at the Independent Reader level, almost always about animals and is probably most famous for Babe: The Gallant Pig, (titled The Sheep-Pig in the UK), which was made into an excellent and popular movie.

He is a prominent children's author in the UK but though there are a good number of his titles in print in the US, he is unfortunately often much less well known here. I suspect even fewer know much about the wending path that brought him to writing children's books.

King-Smith was born in the interwar years in the West Country of England, in Bitton, Gloucestershire, in 1922. He early demonstrated a deep love of wildlife and animals - "As a child I had pets - rabbits, tortoises, rats, mice - and a toy farm which I played with endlessly. It was a pretty eccentric collection - I never minded much what went with what, so I included a giraffe among the dairy herd - but it absorbed me completely."

His father was a businessman in the paper industry and King-Smith enjoyed a comfortable childhood. He attended one of the pre-eminent public schools, Marlborough College, in his teens and finished school just as World War broke out. He worked for a year on a farm as part of the overall British effort to increase agricultural production and then joined one of Britain's most storied and senior regiments, the Grenadier Guards in 1941. He married his childhood sweetheart in 1943. King-Smith served with distinction in the Italian campaign, being mentioned in dispatches on a number of occasions. He was severely wounded in fighting there and was mustered out as a Lieutenant in 1946.

Married and with the first of his three children, King-Smith turned his attention towards immediately earning a livelihood. Following his childhood love, he focused on farming. An opportunity arose for him to run the farm which supplied his father's paper factory with eggs and milk. Thus started a rather eccentric farming career of twenty years over which King-Smith claims income to have fallen every year. This was not for lack of understanding and fondness of animals. His Achilles heel was the quantitative side of the business, shoals upon which a later career would founder as well.

In 1967, at forty-five years of age, financial reality forced him to leave the farm and turn his hand to some other livelihood. He tried in turn travelling salesman (asbestos suits for firefighters) followed by factory work for three years (a shoe factory) before deciding he needed to complete a long interrupted education. He attended Bristol University and graduated in 1975 with a degree in Education. From 1975 to his retirement in 1982, he taught elementary and middle grade classes. It was during this period that he began to try his hand at writing.

As he self-deprecatingly encapsulated his career path to Heather Vogel Frederick in an article in Publisher's Weekly (September 30, 2002) "What it boils down to is that I tried six what you might dignify by the title of careers, and five of them were flops, really. I started out as a soldier, and I wasn't a terribly good soldier, then I became a farmer and, when that packed in, I tried my hand at being a travelling salesman. This went on until at last I found something I was good at - when in doubt, try again!"

His very first story, The Fox Busters, published in 1978, arose from an experience during his farming years. As he related to Julia Eccleshare during an interview (The Guardian November 10, 2001), "I'd had the ideas for it 20 years earlier in the middle of the farming era, when a passing fox had murdered a whole lot of my chickens. One day, I said to myself, 'I'll have a go at writing a story where the weak are victorious over the strong, where the chickens vanquish the foxes.'"

In the Publisher's Weekly article, King-Smith related what happened following the positive reception of his first book. "My first children's book, The Fox Busters, was a classic case of pride coming before a fall. I went into a Bristol bookshop and saw it there and thought, 'By golly, I'm a children's author! I'll write another and won't they be pleased!' So I wrote a second one, and my editor said, 'It's not very exciting, is it? Can't you ginger it up a bit?' So I made [another], and she said, 'I can't publish this, it's too bloodthirsty!' Then I wrote a pig book [Babe: The Gallant Pig], and finally got it right."

Almost all King-Smith's books involve animals. Animal stories have historically fallen into four categories. There are those in which the animals are simply humans in animal form - they think like, act like and speak like people. Examples range from the most ancient stories such as Aesop's Fables to classics such as Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit, Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear and Russel Hoban's Frances the Badger stories.

Then there are stories in which there is an element of fantasy - the animals are animals but can communicate with one another (as in Babe: The Gallant Pig or E.B. White's Charlotte's Web)or can communicate with people (E.B. White's Stuart Little, ) or from whose point of view the story is narrated such as Anna Sewell's Black Beauty.

Then there are stories about animals as animals. While there may be an element of authorial speculation about animal motivation and or "feelings", significant authorial effort is made to objectify the story. Classics in this ilk are Eric Knight's Lassie and Sheila Burnford's The Incredible Journey, Jim Kjelgaard's Big Red and Marguerite Henry's Misty of Chincoteague.

Finally there are the books that are essentially well-written reference books - non-fiction and focusing on the facts of the animal: where they live, how they live, what they eat, etc.

In his late blossoming career that has now stretched across thirty years and more than a hundred titles, King-Smith has ranged across the whole spectrum though his biggest hits tend to be the animal story with a trace of fantasy.

He is in firm company among his native compatriots and, outside of E.B. White, I cannot think of any directly comparable authors of similar stature in the US. In the UK there would of course be Beatrix Potter and Kenneth Grahame but also more contemporaneously James Herriot, Richard Adams (another WWII veteran), and Gerald Durrell. All are characterized by a deep knowledge and personal experience with animals and the land and whose writing about the animals, while respectful and loving, could never be characterized as maudlin or overly sentimental.

One of the wonderful things about Dick King-Smith is that all of his books are likely to be appreciated and some of them will certainly be deeply loved. Our daughter particularly enjoyed his Sophie series of books and of course Babe: The Gallant Pig is destined to enter the pantheon of memorable children's books. As a parent though, you can be confident that with virtually any King-Smith book, you will find a well considered story, humorously told by one of nature's natural gentlemen. His tales usually have a positive moral in them somewhere but they are always first and foremost an entertaining story.

As Julia Eccleshare summed it up in her interview with Dick King-Smith:

"As book followed book with alarming speed - he gave up teaching for writing, though he never expected to make a living out of it - the qualities of his books began to surface. Helped by years of classical education in the best tradition of the English public-school system, his stories have heroic resonances, as well as being written in perfectly shaped classical sentences, which makes them a joy to read - and especially out loud.

More than that, they are written with the humorous, civilised view of human or animal interaction so reflective of King-Smith himself. This reached its apogee in The Sheep-Pig, his sixth book, which won the Guardian Children's Book Prize long before it was made into the hit film Babe. How does a runty little piglet get to be a great sheep-pig? It's simple: intelligence and good manners - not a bad message to put across in any story."

Independent Reader

Babe by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Maggie Kneen Highly Recommended

Pigs Might Fly by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Mary Rayner Suggested

Harry's Mad by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jill Bennett Suggested

Martin's Mice by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jez Alborough Suggested

Jenius by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Brian Floca Suggested

Ace by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Lynette Hemmant Suggested

The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith Suggested

The Invisible Dog by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Roger Roth Suggested

All Pigs Are Beautiful by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Anita Jeram Suggested

Harriet's Hare by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Roger Roth Suggested

Three Terrible Trins by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Mark Teague Suggested

I Love Guinea Pigs by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Anita Jeram Suggested

The Stray by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Wayne Parmenter Suggested

Smasher by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Richard Bernal Suggested

A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jon Goodell Suggested

Mysterious Miss Slade by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Ann Kronheimer Suggested

The Roundhill by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Sian Bailey Suggested

Lady Lollipop by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jill Barton Suggested

Funny Frank by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by John Eastwood Suggested

Titus Rules! by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by John Eastwood Suggested

Hairy Hezekiah by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Nick Bruel Suggested

The Nine Lives of Aristotle by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Bob Graham Suggested

The Golden Goose by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Ann Kronheimer Suggested

The Catlady by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by John Eastwood Suggested

Dinosaur Trouble by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Nick Bruel Suggested

The Mouse Family Robinson by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Nick Bruel Suggested

The Twin Giants by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Mini Grey Suggested

Under the Mishmash Trees by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Nick Bruel Suggested

Dick King-Smith Bibliography

The Fox Busters by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jon Miller 1978
Daggie Dogfoot by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Mary Rayner 1980
The Mouse Butcher by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Wendy Smith 1981
Magnus Powermouse by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Mary Rayner 1982
The Queen's Nose by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jill Bennett 1983
The Sheep-Pig (Babe: The Gallant Pig) by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Mary Rayner 1983
Harry's Mad by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jill Bennett 1984
Saddlebottom by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Alice Englander 1985
Lightning Fred by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Michael Bragg 1985
Noah's Brother by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Ian Newsham 1986
Pets for Keeps by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Alan Saunders 1986
H. Prince by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Martin Honeysett 1986
Yob by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Abigail Pizer 1986
E.S.P. by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Peter Wingham 1986
Dumpling by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jo Davies 1986
Farmer Bungle Forgets by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Martin Honeysett 1986
Town Watch by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Catherine Bradbury 1987
Country Watch: Animals to Look out for in the Countryside by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Catherine Bradbury 1987
Tumbleweed by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Ian Newsham 1987
The Hodgeheg by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Linda Birch 1987
Cuckoobush Farm by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Kazuko 1987
Friends and Brothers by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Susan Hellard 1987
Martin's Mice by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jez Alborough 1988
George Speaks by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Judy Brown 1988
Jenius by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Peter Firmin 1988
Emily's Legs by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Katinka Kew 1988
Water Watch by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Catherine Bradbury 1988
Dodo Comes to Tumbledown Farm by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by John Sharp 1988
The Greatest! by Dick King-Smith 1988
The Toby Man by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Ian Newsham 1989
Alice and Flower and Foxianna by Dick King-Smith 1989
Beware of the Bull! by Dick King-Smith 1989
Henry Pond Poet by Dick King-Smith 1989
Dodos Are Forever by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by David Parkins 1989
Sophie's Snail by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Claire Minter-Kemp 1989
The Trouble with Edward by Dick King-Smith 1989
Ace: The Very Important Pig by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Lynette Hemmant 1990
Dick King-Smith's Alphabeasts by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Quentin Blake 1990
The Jolly Witch by Dick King-Smith 1990
Paddy's Pot of Gold by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by David Parkins 1990
The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by David Parkins 1990
The Whistling Pig by Dick King-Smith 1990
Caruso's Cool Cats by Dick King-Smith 1991
Horace and Maurice by Dick King-Smith 1991
Lightning Strikes Twice by Dick King-Smith 1991
Sophie's Tom by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by David Parkins 1991
The Cuckoo Child by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Leslie Bowman 1991
The Animal Parade: A Collection of Stories and Poems by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jocelyn Wild 1992
Blessu and Dumpling by Dick King-Smith 1992
Farm Tales by Dick King-Smith 1992
The Finger Eater by Dick King-Smith 1992
The Ghost at Codlin Castle by Dick King-Smith 1992
The Guard Dog by Dick King-Smith 1992
Jungle Jingles by Dick King-Smith 1992
Pretty Polly by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Marshall Peck 1992
Triffic Pig Book by Dick King-Smith 1992
The Topsy-turvy Storybook by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by John Eastwood 1992
Dragon Boy by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jocelyn Wild 1993
Horse Pie by Dick King-Smith 1993
A Narrow Squeak, and Other Animal Stories by Dick King-Smith 1993
Sophie Hits Six by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by David Parkins 1993
Lady Daisy by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jan Naimo Jones 1993
The Invisible Dog by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Roger Roth 1993
Find the White Horse by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Larry Wilkes 1993
All Pigs Are Beautiful by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Anita Jeram 1993
The Merrythought by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Mike Reid 1993
Uncle Bumpo by Dick King-Smith 1993
Bobby the Bad by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Julie Anderson 1994
Connie and Rollo by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Judy Brown 1994
The Excitement of Being Ernest by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Nigel McMullen 1994
The Swoose by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Maire Corner 1994
Happy Mouseday by Dick King-Smith 1994
Harriet's Hare by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Valerie Littlewood 1994
Mr. Potter's Pet by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Hilda Offen 1994
Sophie in the Saddle by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by David Parkins 1994
Three Terrible Trins by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Mark Teague 1994
The Schoolmouse by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Phil Garner 1994
Sophie Is Seven by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by David Parkins 1995
I Love Guinea Pigs by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Anita Jeram 1995
King Max the Last: A Second Hodgeheg Story by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Birch 1995
Warlock Watson by Dick King-Smith 1995
All Because of Jackson by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by John Eastwood 1995
The Stray by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Wayne Parmenter 1996
Dick King-Smith's Animal Friends: Thirty-one True Life Stories by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Anita Jeram 1996
Sophie's Lucky by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by David Parkins 1996
Clever Duck by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Mike Terry 1996
Hogsel and Gruntel and Other Animal Stories by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Liz Graham-Yooll 1996
Godhanger by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Andrew Davidson 1996
Mrs. Jollipop by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Frank Rodgers 1996
Treasure Trove by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Paul Howard 1996
Omnibombulator by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jim and Peter Kavanagh 1996
Smasher by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Terry Michael 1997
Animal Stories by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Terry Michael 1997
The Spotty Pig by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Mary Wormell 1997
A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jon Goodell 1997
Puppy Love by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Anita Jeram 1997
What Sadie Saw by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Julie Anderson 1997
The Crowstarver by Dick King-Smith 1998
Mr. Ape by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Roger Roth 1998
How Green Was My Mouse by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Robert Bartelt 1998
The Merman by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Roger Roth 1999
The Witch of Blackberry Bottom (Mysterious Miss Slade) by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Ann Kronheimer 1999
The Roundhill by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Sian Bailey 2000
Lady Lollipop by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Jill Barton 2001
Chewing the Cud: An Extraordinary Life Remembered by the Author of Babe the Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Harry Horse 2001
Billy the Bird by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Susie Jenkin Pearce 2001
Funny Frank by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Roger Roth 2002
Titus Rules by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by John Eastwood 2003
Traffic: The Extraordinary Pig by Dick King-Smith 2003
Hairy Hezekiah by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Nick Bruel 2003
The Nine Lives of Aristotle by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Bob Graham 2003
The Golden Goose by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Ann Kronheimer 2005
The Catlady by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by John Eastwood 2007
Dinosaur Trouble by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Nick Bruel 2008
The Mouse Family Robinson by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Nick Bruel 2008
The Twin Giants by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Mini Grey 2008
Under the Mishmas Trees by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Nick Bruel 2008