Some Other Awards (Invididual Books, Stories, Poems)

1980 Garden State Children's Book Award: Commander Toad in Space

1990 Bulletin of Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon: Bird Watch

1990 Florida State Reading Award nominee: Owl Moon

1990 Charlotte Award: Piggins

1991 Asimov's Reader's Award, poetry: "Angels Fly Because They Take Themselves Lightly"

1992 Certificate of Merit Bookbuilders West: Eeny, Meeny, Miney Mole

1992 Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award

1993 SCBWI Magazine Merit Honor: "Suzy and Leah"

1993 Rhysling Award for best fantasy poem of year, given by the Science Fiction Poetry Association: "Will"

1993 Hungry Mind Review Children's Books of Distinction: Jane Yolen's Mother Goose Songbook

1994 Educational Press Association Distinguished Achievement Award: "Suzy and Leah"

1995 Bulletin of Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon: Ballad of the Pirate Queens.

1997 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award: The Devil's Arithmetic

1997 Storytelling World Award: "The Word the Devil Made Up" in Here There Be Angels

1998 Parents Guide Honor: Snow Snow--Winter Poems for Children